{"id":7607,"date":"2025-07-06T15:13:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T13:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=7607"},"modified":"2025-07-06T15:13:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T13:13:05","slug":"der-lange-schatten-der-remigration-wie-martin-sellner-trotz-verbot-im-rathaus-spricht-und-die-afd-geistige-schuetzenhilfe-leistet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/der-lange-schatten-der-remigration-wie-martin-sellner-trotz-verbot-im-rathaus-spricht-und-die-afd-geistige-schuetzenhilfe-leistet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long Shadow of Remigration - How Martin Sellner Spoke at the Town Hall Despite a Ban and the AfD Provided Intellectual Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chemnitz\/Stade, July 2025 \u2013 It was an appearance that should never have happened - and yet it did. Martin Sellner, the central figure of the so-called \u201cIdentitarian Movement\u201d and an ideological architect of the European far right, spoke inside the Chemnitz town hall. Not publicly, not officially - but audibly. From a small office window at the rear of the building, he delivered a several-minute speech to the gathered crowd, after two courts had prohibited his planned appearance in an official municipal event room. The city, as a spokeswoman told MDR Sachsen, \u201chad to acknowledge that he was still able to put on his show.\u201d What might seem like a minor legal maneuver is in fact the expression of a political culture war that has long since reached the halls of local government. The rejection of the event by the Administrative Court of Chemnitz and the Higher Administrative Court in Bautzen was unambiguous: the planned speech on the topic of \u201cremigration\u201d did not fall within the jurisdiction of the city council, the ruling stated - and there was also the well-founded expectation that \u201cextremist and racist content\u201d would be disseminated. That, according to the city\u2019s usage regulations, was not permitted. The decision is final. But that did not stop the movement from placing its message anyway - through symbolism, strategy, and a carefully staged performance. Behind the town hall, about 60 supporters of the \u201cFree Saxons\u201d demonstrated, while roughly 500 people - organized by the alliance \u201cChemnitz verbindet\u201d - formed a human chain against hate and incitement. It is an image that increasingly repeats itself in German cities: on one side, a democratic uprising against the authoritarian reshaping of language and politics. On the other, a far-right movement that lays claim to vocabulary, despite prohibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n