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Philip Oltermann in Berlin

Politicians from Germany’s AfD met extremist group to discuss deportation ‘masterplan’

Supporters of the AfD party in front of Berlin cathedral
Rightwing parties such as the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) have been buoyed up by discontent over immigration. Photograph: SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images

Politicians from Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, including a personal aide to its leader Alice Weidel, met the head of the rightwing extremist Identitarian Movement and neo-Nazi activists to discuss a “masterplan” for mass deportations in the event of the party coming to power, it has been reported.

The meeting, which was first reported on Wednesday by the investigative outlet Correctiv, took place last November at a countryside hotel on the outskirts of Potsdam. It is likely to feed a fraught debate over whether the AfD should be banned due to growing concerns that it poses a fundamental threat to German democracy.

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