Far-Right Supporters Rally In Gera

GERA, GERMANY - JANUARY 27: Far-right supporters and neo-Nazis gather for a rally on January 27, 2024 in Gera, Germany. The rally took place as locals demonstrated not far away in the city center against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) politcal party. Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets across Germany recently to protest against the AfD following the recent revelation that high-ranking AfD members met with far-right extremists at a villa in Potsdam last November. According to the investigative media group Correctiv, whose members filmed and recorded portions of the gathering, politicians from the AfD, including AfD Bundestag parliamentarian Gerrit Huy as well as Roland Hartwig, a now former advisor to AfD co-leader Alice Weidel, and the German Christian Democrats (CDU)-linked Werteunion met with far-right extremists, including Austrian far-right activist Martin Sellner, and supporters of far-right causes, including Hans-Christian Limmer, founder of the Backwerk nationwide bakery chain. Participants at the meeting reportedly discussed how to possibly introduce legislative measures to enable the mass expulsion of immigrants from Germany, as well as German citizens with immigrant roots and German citizens who have helped refugees. Gera is located in the state of Thuringia, one of several eastern German states that will hold state elections in September and where the AfD has strong support. (Photo by Jens Schlueter/Getty Images)