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Court spokeswoman Christina Salzborn confirmed the hearing date to APA on Tuesday afternoon. Sellner faces up to three years in prison if convicted. The Vienna public prosecutor’s office brought charges against Sellner after a post on his private Telegram channel, which he had posted on December 7, 2022 after raids and 25 arrests in the German Reichsbürger scene, with traces of the suspects’ sphere all the way to Austria . House searches were also carried out in two domestic federal states.
According to the German Federal Prosecutor’s Office, the proponents had planned to overthrow the state order in Germany and take over the leadership of the state. “The investigations allow us to look into the abyss of a terrorist threat from the Reich citizen milieu,” said German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser at the time.
“Putsch? Because of it,” said Sellner on his channel. And he let his subscribers know that every asylum home posed more danger than the Reich Citizens’ Movement. For the public prosecutor, there is no question that hatred against the group of asylum seekers was incited. Since Sellner has a sufficient number of subscribers, the contribution was made accessible to the general public, which is why, according to the indictment, the offense of incitement to hatred was fulfilled.
For years, Sellner was the face of the right-wing extremist identities and is still considered an influential representative of the New Right in the entire German-speaking world. Before his 34th birthday, he resigned his position as spokesman for the Identitarians and announced that he would concentrate on the “information war” in the future. In addition to Telegram, he has been active since the beginning of the year on the Tiktok platform, which is popular with children and young people, where he uses propaganda videos to specifically attract the attention of young users.
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