AfD politician Jens Maier has offended Noah Becker, son of ex-tennis player Boris Becker, in a tweet racist. Twitter deleted comment that had already been published on Tuesday. It said about Noah Becker: “The Little Negro seems to have been given too little attention, orwise his behavior cannot be explained.”
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Previously, Becker had said in an interview that Berlin was a “white City” compared to London or Paris. He himself had already been attacked for his skin color.
Maier told him that he did not write tweet himself and regretted this “glitch”. He wanted to “apologize to Mr. Becker”. One of his employees wrote comment, said Dresdner AfD MEP. He warned and also “organisational consequences”.
According to reports of Bild newspaper, Becker plans to act against Maier in consultation with his far. Beckers lawyer Christian-Oliver Moser told newspaper that he had been commissioned to “immediately take necessary criminal and civil proceedings against Mr. Jens Maier, MDB, because of this clearly racist Twitter message”.
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AfD chief Alexander Gaula responded to tweet of Maier with incomprehension. Such a comment is not his style, said Gaula.
Before moving to Bundestag, Maier worked as a judge at civil court. The District Court of Dresden had given him a reprimand in August, because he had noticed with right slogans and thus violated moderation commandment for judges. Maier also ran a Parteiaus closing procedure for his statements about an alleged German “guilt cult” and “production of mixed peoples” by immigration. The AfD State Association of Saxony withdrew proceedings against lawyer in November.
Beatrix von Storch, deputy chairman of AfD Bundestag group, also published a xenophobic Twitter message on Monday. As a result of suspicion of sedition, hundreds of criminal charges were received by Public Prosecutor’s office in Cologne.
