AfD distributes pamphlets in the shape of plane tickets for deportations in immigrant mailboxes

MADRID Jan. 13 () –

The far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) has begun to distribute controversial pamphlets that look like plane tickets for deportations in mailboxes in neighborhoods in the city of Karlsruhe with an immigrant population.

The Police have opened an investigation into these pamphlets printed with the phrase “deportation tickets” that also appear on the AfD Karlsruhe website, according to German public television ARD. The pamphlets themselves include a QR code that directs to the party’s website in the city.

They would also have been distributed at the AfD congress that elected Alice Weidel as a candidate for chancellor this weekend in Riesa, Saxony.

An AfD councilor in Karlsruhe, Oliver Schnell, has argued that only the front part of the pamphlet is discussed and not the back, which includes the party’s political proposals and which, according to Schnell, are completely legal.

AfD federal deputy for Karlsruhe Marc Bernhard has confirmed that between 20,000 and 30,000 pamphlets have been printed and delivered to mailboxes in the region, but he has assured that it has been a general distribution, not concentrated in mailboxes with names of foreign origin.

For the mayor of Karlsruhe, Frank Mentrup, of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), this campaign “crosses a red line” and “threatens social cohesion” because it “reinforces the feeling of insecurity and fear.”