The exposure of the far -right party from its headquarters in Berlin is required by the owner of the building. AFD wants to appeal to the courts in turn.

Those who watched the television coverage of the latest parliamentary elections in Germany may remember that Greek media correspondents did not know (and justified …) to lead the election night. At the headquarters of the Christian Democrats (CDUs), who according to polls, would celebrate the first? At the headquarters of the Social Democrats (SPD), which would record historical defeat? Or at the headquarters of the far -right party “Alternative for Germany” (AfD) that would concentrate the largest percentage in its history in nationwide elections and emerge as an official opposition?

For all of us who were in front of the AfD headquarters in the Berlin suburb, it was a special night. Early in the afternoon, the building was found in a police officer, hundreds of protesters rushed to the spot causing a deafening noise, no tensions and temporary arrests were lacking, silent AfD fans were giving up on German flags, and only German flags were raised by German flags. They celebrated their success.

Furious owner

Now the owner of the building, Austrian Lucas Hufnagel, is moving legally and demands the eviction of the AfD, which he justifies on what happened on the night of the election.

According to the Tagesspiegel newspaper, Hufnangel complains that on the night of February 23, AfD executives occupied the interior of the building for a festive barbecue, despite the ban. In addition, with special effects the party’s colors and emblem on the facade of the building, which was also forbidden.

Essentially what angered Hufnagel was that AfD staff behaved “as if they were the owners of the building”, without giving any account to anyone. Another aggravating element was that, because of the impenetrable police cluster, not only protesters and journalists, but not even the rest of the tenants, were unable to enter the high -rise building.

‘We are legal’ says AfD

The AfD itself rejects the charges and implies that if necessary, it will in turn resort to justice. “We will defend us with all the means we have,” says the party’s treasurer Carsten Hutter in Zeit Online.

He says that Hufnangel has signed a series of contracts, which are valid until 2027 and cover the interior and outdoors of the building. In addition, the AfD claims that it had offered the owner an amount of 10,000 euros as compensation for the tension that prevailed on the night of the election.