After right-wing meeting: City of Potsdam is considering entry ban for Sellner

On Sunday it was said that an assessment would be made in coordination with the German security authorities as to whether there was a threat to security and public order. Several media outlets previously reported on the review of an entry ban for Sellner.

The Interior Minister of the federal state of Brandenburg, Michael Stübgen (CDU), said: “An immigration authority can also obtain an entry ban for EU citizens if they pose a threat to security and order. If Potsdam sees itself as responsible for this, they can check it.” However, it is important that such a measure is ordered in a legally secure manner and can withstand judicial review.

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When asked about an examination of a possible entry ban against Sellner, the city said that, on the advice of federal security authorities, it was examining “whether the statements made in Potsdam, the place of the meeting, posed a danger to security and public order and whether repetitions in the context of a local jurisdiction must be prevented using constitutional means”. All relevant security authorities at federal and state level were involved in the weighing process. “If you want to avoid the unjust state, you have to use the rule of law,” said Mayor Mike Schubert (SPD).

Already on Tuesday, the Left Party’s spokeswoman for anti-fascism, Martina Renner, told the dpa that she had raised the question in the Bundestag Interior Committee as to whether the government intended to take measures to prevent Sellner from entering the country. The representatives of the BMI (Federal Ministry of the Interior) present stated that this would be taken into account and examined.”

Sellner was already undercover as a wanted man

The “Spiegel” reported, with reference to information from security circles, that the federal police had already secretly advertised Sellner as a wanted man. A corresponding entry has been stored in the internal search database.

According to the report, if Sellner is checked at the border by German officials, he could be refused further travel after consultation with the German Federal Police Headquarters. According to information from security circles, the basis was a danger forecast from the German police, the article continued.

The Federal Police Headquarters did not comment on this information when asked on Sunday. The authority announced that the responsible immigration authority in Potsdam was conducting an examination procedure. The Federal Police cannot provide any further information in this regard.

Sellner wrote on his Telegram channel on Saturday that he wanted to take legal action against an entry ban into Germany. “I’m certainly not canceling my upcoming appointments in Germany because of this.”

Meetings of right-wing radicals were made public

The Correctiv research center made public a meeting of radical right-wingers on November 25th in Potsdam, in which some AfD politicians as well as individual members of the CDU and the very conservative Values ​​Union took part. Sellner said he spoke about “remigration” at the meeting. When right-wing extremists use the term, they usually mean that large numbers of people of foreign origin should leave the country – even under duress.

Sellner was the spokesman for the Identitarian Movement Austria (IBÖ), which was classified as right-wing extremist, until 2023. The meeting in Potsdam was discovered in January by the research platform Correctiv and led to protests against the right in Germany and Austria.

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