❗️ Georg Pazderski asked the AfD board in July 2019 to discuss "cooperation" with Götz Kubitschek's Institut für Staatspolitik and Jürgen Elsässer's Compact magazine, an email forwarded by Alexander Gauland shows.

It cited the Identitarian Movement's extremist classification.

❗️ The AfD in North Rhine-Westphalia suspended a member in August 2025 over an X post of chocolate marshmallows staged as a Ku Klux Klan lynching, an archived party notice shows.

The post had 24,500 views.

An earlier expulsion bid had stalled since March 2025.

❗️ AfD MP Frank Pasemann sought in 2018 to have a member expelled for allegedly spreading a voice message urging serious crimes against "Kanacken" [Turks], an email forwarded by Alexander Gauland shows.

A party court later refused to add his submission to the case file.

❗️ An AfD regional leader told the NRW state board in April 2025 that a Bottrop board member sold a swastika flag at the party's info stand and distributed drugs at party events.

He said a majority "supposedly steered" by state MP Christian Blex blocked an expulsion motion.

❗️ An AfD state board member in North Rhine-Westphalia sent colleagues a list of 2,000 names and addresses of "antifascists" in 2016 to keep "a watchful eye" on them, an email shows.

He suggested naming them as witnesses after attacks so someone might "lose their nerve".

❗️ AfD headquarters suspected in 2019 that an ex-board member exported its member files and 1,465,178 bank-data records, emails show.

The tip-off was a SPIEGEL query about a €150 donation from Stephan Ernst, Walter Lübcke's convicted killer.

Georg Pazderski wanted charges.

❗️ An AfD local-election candidate allegedly rigged an Alexa device to listen in on the bedroom of a house he rents out, an internal NRW party email from August 2025 says.

Police seized evidence, it says.

He was No. 2 on the party's list in Rhein-Sieg.

‼️ PS5 hackers have just jailbroken Sony's latest firmware, 14.10.

Keeping your console offline ensures you can use it to play future games.