BERLIN: Berlin prosecutors said on Monday they have charged a member of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party with making a Nazi salute in parliament.
The suspect allegedly “greeted a party colleague... at the east entrance to the Reichstag building with a heel click and a Hitler salute” in June 2023, the prosecutors said in a statement. Making such a salute is illegal in Germany and is punishable by up to three years in prison.
The Bild daily named the lawmaker as Matthias Moosdorf, 60, a member of parliament for the city of Zwickau in the former East German state of Saxony.
