Augsburg (dpa / lby) - The Bavarian member of the state parliament Markus Bayerbach has to answer to the Augsburg district court on Friday (9:00 a.m.) for false suspicion of an ex-employee. The proceedings are about representations that degrade refugees or downplay Nazi terror.
The background is the dispute between the former AfD MP Bayerbach, who has since left the parliamentary group and party, with his former speaker Andreas Jurca. Bayerbach had reported the speaker, who was also politically active at the AfD, for illegal data deletion on the company laptop. According to the public prosecutor, in the course of the investigation, files appeared in a folder called "AfD jokes" that violated the human dignity of foreigners, played down Nazi rule or showed signs of unconstitutional organizations.
According to the indictment, Bayerbach untruthfully told the police officers that his officer was responsible for these files. The investigations against Jurca did not confirm the accusation, however, and the proceedings were discontinued. The public prosecutor's office had therefore requested a penalty order of 20,000 euros against Bayerbach. The deputy has lodged an objection, so that the process is now taking place.
