Merz’s ‘ethnic cleansing’ comments trigger defamation complaint from AfD

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The Alternative Party for Germany (AfD, extreme right) has announced that it is filing a complaint against Chancellor Friedrich Merz, according to his statements about the concept of "remigration". The formation accuses the head of the German Government of associating the politics promoted by the extreme right with the idea of "ethnic cleansing".

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The AfD makes a criminal complaint against the chancellor after Merz's speech in the Bundestag.

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Germany's far-right opposition party AfD said on Thursday evening it would request that Chancellor Friedrich Merz be charged with criminal defamation after he accused the party of promoting "ethnic cleansing."

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The right-wing nationalist Alternative for Germany (ADD) party has decided to seek criminal prosecution of Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany for slander and insult by European media on Friday.

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The German Chancellor and leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Friedrich Merz, participates in a collective interview in Berlin, one day after the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, on Monday (7). REUTERS/Axel Schmidt The German Prime Minister, Friedrich Merz, accused the far-right AfD party of seeking "ethnic cleansing" in the country through its anti-immigration policies, and in response to the acronym sued the Prime Minister for def…