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Kate Connolly in Berlin

Germany considers entry ban on Austrian behind mass deportation plan

Martin Sellner
Martin Sellner, pictured in 2019, founded the identitarian movement in Austria in 2012. Photograph: Georg Hochmuth/AFP/Getty Images

German authorities are closely examining the possibility of an entry ban for the far-right Austrian whose master plan for the deportation of immigrants is at the heart of a storm gripping Germany over the rightwing populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party.

Martin Sellner, the founder of the so-called Identitarian Movement, which preaches the superiority of European ethnic groups, could be banned from entering Germany if he is deemed to pose a threat to German democratic stability, according to members of the interior affairs committee of the Bundestag.

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