Germany Arrests Aide to Far-Right AfD Party for Spying for China

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1. *From Bloomberg News reporter Angela Cullen:*

   Police in Dresden have detained a German national suspected of carrying out acts of espionage for China. The man, according to a report by ARD, is an employee of Maximilian Krah, the far-right AfD’s lead candidate in the European Parliament elections.

   Federal prosecutors suspect the man, whom they identified as Jian G., of working for the Chinese secret service, citing intelligence reports from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution in a statement on Tuesday.

   They allege that G. has been working for a German member of the European Parliament, and suspect him of repeatedly passing on information about negotiations and decisions in the European Parliament to his intelligence service client. They also accuse him of spying on Chinese opposition members in Germany.

   Germany’s Alternative for Germany is already under legal pressure, with Bjoern Hoecke, the head of the party in the eastern state of Thuringia, currently standing trial for using a Nazi slogan at a rally. Another AfD lawmaker, Petr Bystron, has denied taking money from a pro-Russia media outlet following reports of links to the organization.

2. Sounds like the Alternative for Deutschland leads to Beijing, eh?

3. Classic AfD – ruzzian and china friends, who hate modern western civilization.

4. Iornic how “patriotic” far-right idiots are the most likely to end up as traitors selling out their country.

5. That’s the biggest issue and problem for democracies, you know that certain parties are hubs for traitors but you still have to let them run as an organization because you are a democracy.

6. The AfD and most other far-right parties are assets of foreign intelligence agencies

7. While AfD is a bunch of Russian boot lickers, this guy was employed by the SPD before a German radio station (NDR2) reported this morning.

   So it’s (this time) more a thing of this special guy, not the political party.

8. The far right is spying for the communists… kinda ironic.

9. We really need to go back to the bloc thinking. The globalized world was just a scam and the communist-fascist bloc used the lowered awareness of the west to deeply infiltrate them.

10. Drain the swamp!

11. Alternative for Germany right?? right????

12. B-but muh immigrants????

13. Shouldn’t it say “suspected of spying for China”

    I guess presumption of innocence suddenly does not apply to the most detested party in Germany.

14. lol

    Russian spies, China spies, whos next? Iran?

    Seems that some kind of witchhunt initiated to get rid of political opponents.

    Love democracy.

15. Extremists are all traitors, change my mind

16. Those „Patriots“.

17. Wait wait wait!

    Wasn’t AfD supposed to be a party of sovereignty and independence? The left was supposed to bad so why work with the communist party? Wasn’t the conservative right supposed to be all for law and order?

    I’m just asking questions!