Source: The Local
AfD candidate Kay Nerstheimer was elected on Sunday to Berlin’s state parliament, but quickly came under pressure over controversial posts he made on Facebook as well as his background as a former member of the far-right German Defence League.
After labelling Syrian refugees “disgusting worms” last year, he this year said asylum seekers were “parasites which are feeding off the German people”, national media reported.
Nerstheimer has also made comments on social media justifying the killing of civilians by German troops in the Second World War by claiming they were guerrilla fighters and was previously a member of the German Defence League, an organization which is been monitored by the security services.
Public outrage over the offensive statements forced the Berlin chapter of the AfD to distance itself Thursday from Nerstheimer, who had garnered one in four votes in the capital’s suburban electoral district of Lichtenberg 1.
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