A court is expected to deliver its verdict in the trial of one of the best-known figures in the far-right Alternative for Germany party
A court is expected to deliver its verdict Tuesday in the trial of one of the best-known figures in the far-right Alternative for Germany party, who is accused of knowingly using a Nazi slogan in a speech. Björn Höcke went on trial at the state court in the eastern city of Halle in mid-April, months before an election in the state of Thuringia in which he plans to run for governor.
He once called the Holocaust memorial in Berlin a “monument of shame” and called for Germany to perform a “180-degree turn” in how it remembers its past. A party tribunal in 2018 rejected a bid to have him expelled. A conviction wouldn't necessarily have any direct effect on Höcke's political ambitions. Courts can in principle decide to bar a person who has been sentenced to at least six months in prison from voting or being elected for a time.
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