Far-right Austrian nationalist Martin Sellner banned from entering Germany
Al Jazeera
Sellner is known for his talk about ‘remigration’ at a recent meeting of nationalist populists in Europe that triggered large protests in Germany.
Far-right Austrian nationalist Martin Sellner has been banned from entering Germany, days after he was deported from Switzerland.
Sellner, a leader in Austria’s ultranationalist Identitarian Movement, said in a video posted on Tuesday on X that German authorities sent his lawyer a letter saying he was not allowed to enter Germany for the next three years.
Sellner is known for his talk about “remigration” at a recent meeting of nationalist populists from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) that triggered large protests in Germany.
Identitarians belong to an extreme right movement that started in France and mainly campaign against immigration and Islam.
A spokeswoman for the Potsdam city authorities, from where Sellner posted his video on Tuesday, told the AFP news agency that an EU citizen had been served with a “ban on their freedom of movement in Germany”.