faces three years in prison

The events occurred in June 2023, on a day when a plenary session was being held, but it was not until last October when the Bundestag lifted the parliamentary immunity of this far-right deputy.

According to the Prosecutor’s Office, Moosdorf, 60 years old and elected from the Saxon constituency of Zwickau, greeted a colleague from his party with “a click of the heel and a Hitler salute” in the cloakroom at one of the entrances to the Reichstag building.

The note adds that the accused was fully aware that this greeting could be seen by other people. “He had to be aware when saluting the banned National Socialist German Workers Party that he could be observed by third parties who were in the entrance area,” he said in a statement.

Matthias Moosdorf has so far denied the accusations against him, going so far as to describe them as “absurd”.

Three years in prison

The parliamentary immunity of Moosdorf – who is also involved in another controversy for having traveled to Russia without authorization from his party – was lifted in October this year.

In fact, in the middle of last September, this far-right deputy, who was AfD’s foreign policy spokesperson in the Bundestag, was sentenced to pay an internal fine of 2,000 euros for said trip.

Now, the Berlin district court of Tiergarten must decide whether to admit the accusation and open proceedings against him; If convicted, the deputy faces to a fine or to one prison sentence of up to three years.

It would not be the first conviction against an AfD member for the use of anti-constitutional signs. For example, the leader of the most radical wing of the party, Björn Höckewas sentenced to pay a fine for using the Nazi slogan All for Germany at a rally