German far-right lawmaker hosts white supremacist to discuss ‘mass-deportations’
A member of Germany's far-right AfD party hosted a controversial speaking event with one of Europe's most prominent white supremacists
VETSCHAU, Germany (MNTV) – A member of Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland party hosted a controversial speaking event with one of Europe’s most prominent white supremacists, defying her own party leadership’s request to cancel the gathering.
Lena Kotré, a Brandenburg state legislator for AfD, appeared January 23rd alongside Austrian activist Martin Sellner at a car dealership in Vetschau to discuss “remigration”—a euphemism for mass deportations that critics characterize as ethnic cleansing.
The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism documented the event, which featured the flag of Sellner’s Identitarian Movement hanging at the entrance.
Sellner, a former neo-Nazi who once affixed a swastika poster to an Austrian synagogue, leads the pan-European Identitarian Movement and promotes conspiracy theories about immigration constituting deliberate replacement of white Europeans.
He advocates a 30-year plan to make countries “European again” and eliminate multiculturalism.
The Christchurch mosque shooter, who killed 51 people in 2019, donated nearly $1,700 to Sellner’s movement and exchanged emails with him, though no charges resulted.
The event occurred after AfD’s federal leadership reportedly asked Kotré to cancel what was initially an official party gathering scheduled for January 20th.
Party leaders claim their remigration concept targets only non-citizens, distinguishing it from Sellner’s vision, which includes deporting “unassimilated” German citizens.
This distinction matters legally—a German court recently deemed Sellner’s remigration plan unconstitutional while ruling on a separate extremism case.
During the talk, Kotré proposed reviewing naturalizations from the past decade and revoking citizenship for those found “deceptive.”
She mused about establishing a private deportation industry and suggested using DNA analysis, linguistic assessments, and phone examinations to determine deportation eligibility for people of “unclear origins.”
The event featured other extremist figures, including Maximilian Märkl, spokesman for Germany’s Identitarian Movement, classified as right-wing extremist by domestic intelligence services.
Märkl praised AfD for finding “courage” to work with Identitarians.
Despite the attempted cancellation, ties between AfD members and Sellner appear strengthening.
Days after the Vetschau event, AfD Thuringia’s Secretary General posted photos of meeting Sellner inside the state parliament, while another AfD legislator announced plans to attend Sellner’s upcoming Remigration Summit.
AfD is Germany’s second-largest parliamentary party while simultaneously fighting classification as a far-right extremist organization by national security services.
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