Germany: Public prosecutors and the media falsely accuse AfD politician of doing the Hitler salute

The Munich public prosecutor's office is now investigating AfD member of the Bundestag Petr Bystron. According to the investigators, he is said to have shown the Hitler salute. The Bundestag has now lifted Bystron's immunity. The politician was born in the Czech Republic, was arrested by the State Security at the age of 15 and later received political asylum in the Federal Republic. From 2006 to 2013 he was a member of the FDP.

A look at the video of the event - part of a nationwide protest day by the AfD against compulsory vaccination on March 5 - and the point at which the Hitler salute was allegedly shown shows that the allegations of the Munich public prosecutor's office - an authority bound by politics - simply are absurd. The question here is: Can the officials really be so wrong in their assessment or is there an intentional misapplication of the law here?

Gewinnspiel: Wer hier einen #Hitlergruß sieht, gewinnt einen Praktikumsplatz bei der Staatsanwaltschaft München I, im Büro der Gruppenleiterin #Diplich. #Immunitätsaufhebung.https://t.co/btsljD3RUG

— ᴘᴇᴛʀ ʙʏsᴛʀᴏɴ (@PetrBystronAfD) July 9, 2022

Above: "Competition: Whoever sees a Hitler salute wins an internship at the Munich I public prosecutor's office, in the office of group leader Diplich."

Bayerischer Rundfunk writes: "During a speech at an AfD rally on Munich's Königsplatz, MP Bystron deliberately raised his outstretched right arm in the direction of the participants of the rally to the words 'We are the AfD'," explained senior public prosecutor Anne Leiding. This could constitute a prohibited Hitler salute under the Criminal Code.”

Bystron countered that it was "obvious" that he had not shown a Hitler salute. He speaks of a "politically exploited public prosecutor's office that has completely lost its neutrality". The opposition is "covered with completely far-fetched procedures".

The headlines with "Bystron" and "Hitler salute" will stick - no matter what comes of it in the end. True to the motto: if you just throw enough excrement, something will stick.

The fact that the Bundestag is playing along with this farce and lifting the immunity of its colleague because of accusations that are obviously abusive, that apparently every absurd means is right to defame critics of the government as "Nazis", will be one of many phenomena in today's Germany dealing with the past in the future.

Source: Reitschuster