It is one of hers who was arrested during a major raid on that Wednesday in early December, a Reich citizen from the middle of the AfD. Birgit Malsack-Winkemann is a member of the Federal Arbitration Court of the AfD, she represented her party in the Bundestag until 2021. Now the lawyer is suspected of belonging to a right-wing extremist terrorist group.

In the private Facebook group "Colleagues from Alternative Hessen" one could now get scared because suspected terrorists are active in the AfD. But the reactions are different in the forum, which has around 370 members.

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