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Prosecutors said Wednesday that they have charged one of the most prominent figures in the far-right Alternative for <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/world-regions/germany" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Germany party</a> with a second count of uttering a slogan used by the Nazis' SA stormtroopers at a political event.Björn Höcke was already scheduled to go on trial in Halle on April 18. Prosecutors in the eastern city said they would seek to have the new count added to those proceedings.Höcke, 52, is the leader of the regional branch of Alternative for Germany, or AfD, in the neighboring state of Thuringia and an influential figure on the party's hard right. He is set to lead its campaign in a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/politics/state-and-local/elections" target="_blank" rel="noopener">state election</a> set for Sept. 1.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/germany-far-right-party-figure-go-trial-alleged-use-nazi-slogan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FAR-RIGHT GERMAN POLITICIAN TO GO ON TRIAL FOR ALLEGED USE OF NAZI SLOGAN</a>In the case already scheduled for trial, Höcke is charged with using symbols of unconstitutional organizations. He is accused of ending a speech in Merseburg in May 2021 with the words "Everything for Germany!"Prosecutors contend he was aware of the origin of the phrase as an SA slogan. They have said Höcke’s lawyers denied that his words had any "criminal relevance."In the new case, prosecutors allege that he repeated the offense at an AfD event in Gera, in his home state, on Dec. 12 last year, "in certain knowledge of the punishability" of the slogan.They said in a statement that Höcke said "Everything for ..." and encouraged the audience to shout "Germany!" Höcke hasn't yet responded to the latest charges, they added.AfD’s branch in Thuringia has a particularly radical reputation and is viewed by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency as a "proven right-wing extremist" group.Höcke once called the Holocaust memorial in Berlin a "monument of shame" and called for Germany to perform a "180-degree turn" in how it remembers its past. A party tribunal at the time rejected a bid to have him expelled.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/politics/elections/polls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National polls</a> in recent months have shown AfD in second place behind the mainstream conservative opposition, and the party is particularly strong in the formerly communist east.

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title: Far-right German politician charged with second count of using Nazi slogan
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content: Prosecutors said Wednesday that they have charged one of the most prominent
 figures in the far-right Alternative for <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/world-regions/germany"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">Germany party</a> with a second count of uttering
 a slogan used by the Nazis' SA stormtroopers at a political event.Björn Höcke
 was already scheduled to go on trial in Halle on April 18. Prosecutors in the eastern
 city said they would seek to have the new count added to those proceedings.Höcke,
 52, is the leader of the regional branch of Alternative for Germany, or AfD, in
 the neighboring state of Thuringia and an influential figure on the party's hard
 right. He is set to lead its campaign in a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/politics/state-and-local/elections"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">state election</a> set for Sept. 1.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/germany-far-right-party-figure-go-trial-alleged-use-nazi-slogan"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">FAR-RIGHT GERMAN POLITICIAN TO GO ON TRIAL
 FOR ALLEGED USE OF NAZI SLOGAN</a>In the case already scheduled
 for trial, Höcke is charged with using symbols of unconstitutional organizations.
 He is accused of ending a speech in Merseburg in May 2021 with the words "Everything
 for Germany!"Prosecutors contend he was aware of the origin of the phrase
 as an SA slogan. They have said Höcke’s lawyers denied that his words had any "criminal
 relevance."In the new case, prosecutors allege that he repeated the offense
 at an AfD event in Gera, in his home state, on Dec. 12 last year, "in certain knowledge
 of the punishability" of the slogan.They said in a statement that Höcke said
 "Everything for ..." and encouraged the audience to shout "Germany!" Höcke hasn't
 yet responded to the latest charges, they added.AfD’s branch in Thuringia
 has a particularly radical reputation and is viewed by Germany’s domestic intelligence
 agency as a "proven right-wing extremist" group.Höcke once called the Holocaust
 memorial in Berlin a "monument of shame" and called for Germany to perform a "180-degree
 turn" in how it remembers its past. A party tribunal at the time rejected a bid
 to have him expelled.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/politics/elections/polls"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">National polls</a> in recent months have shown AfD
 in second place behind the mainstream conservative opposition, and the party is
 particularly strong in the formerly communist east.
summary: Prosecutors have charged Björn Höcke, a prominent figure in Germany&apos;s
 far-right Alternative for Germany party, with a second count of using a Nazi slogan.
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