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rehe justice committee of the Thuringian state parliament has lifted the parliamentary immunity of Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (left) and the leader of the AfD parliamentary group Björn Höcke. The decision was made on Friday at a committee meeting in Erfurt to allow the prosecutor to investigate after the reports against both politicians.
In Ramelow’s case, it’s the so-called stink finger thing. Among other things, charges were brought against Höcke for sedition. Ramelow had shown the middle finger to AfD MP Stefan Möller in a debate in the summer. The deputy filed charges against him for insult. After the scandal, Ramelow apologized and said he had shown respect to the state parliament “not to the extent necessary.” However, he would never let the AfD instrumentalize his “anti-fascist attitude,” he wrote at the time.
According to the Mühlhausen prosecutor’s office, Höcke is concerned about two reports of suspected sedition or defamation. On social media, the right-wing AfD is said to have blamed sea savior Carola Rackete for the criminals arriving in Germany with the refugees, as a spokesman for the Prosecutor’s Office said. In another case, Höcke is said to have described a woman as an RAF terrorist convicted of a misdemeanor of tax money.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the result of the investigation is “completely open.” Thuringia CDU General Secretary Christian Herrgott said with a view to Ramelow: “Such loss of control must not happen to a prime minister.” Höcke loses his immunity, “because as a right-wing extremist he rejects these rules.” Ramelow loses it “because we can only defend these democratic rules if we also adhere to them.”
