German Nationalists Send One-way Plane Tickets to Politicians

A German far-right party has sparked outrage by sending mock one-way airline tickets to politicians with migrant roots, urging them to “go home” ahead of Sunday’s election.

The Local
September 18, 2013

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Berlin’s Green Party candidate Ozcan Mutlu filed police charges over a letter he received, while two more Greens politicians and two of the far-left Linke party have also received similar hate mail.

“Threats like these are anti-democratic and must not go unanswered,” Mutlu said.

The sender was the anti-immigration fringe group the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD), which lawmakers are seeking to ban in a case filed with the country’s highest court.

The mock airline tickets sent out by the NPD in Berlin are labelled “Return Airlines” and marked “one-way.” They give the destination as “home country” and the date as “immediately.”

An accompanying letter signed by the party’s Berlin member Jan Sturm accuses the politicians with Turkish and other migrant roots of seeking to politically influence the ethnic German people.

“This letter was a shock to me,” a Brazilian-born candidate for the Internet-freedom party the Pirates, Fabricio do Canto, told the website of news weekly Stern. “I’m also asking myself: how did they get my address?”

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