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The Guardian - UK
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Deborah Cole in Berlin

German police investigate AfD flyers resembling plane tickets for immigrants

A blue poster saying: 'Jetzt (Now) AfD'
An AfD poster for its increasingly provocative election campaign. Photograph: Filip Singer/EPA

German police have launched an investigation after the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party distributed flyers designed to resemble plane tickets for deportation that were addressed to “illegal immigrants” as part of an increasingly provocative campaign for next month’s general election.

People from immigrant communities in the south-western city of Karlsruhe found the flyers in their letterboxes, although it was not immediately clear if they had been directly targeted.

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