The Saxon AfD welcomes the public prosecutor's investigation into its member of state parliament Jörg Dornau. For several days now, regional and national media have been reporting that a member of parliament had prisoners working on his farm in Belarus, with individual reports also mentioning forced labor, the AfD state association announced. The public prosecutor's office has now begun preliminary investigations into the case.
AfD: Case must be investigated properly
Dornau runs an onion farm in Belarus. He himself, but also his party, did not respond to inquiries from the dpa news agency about the allegations against him in the past.
AfD General Secretary Jan Zwerg emphasized: "We as the Saxon AfD welcome the fact that this case is now being investigated in a legally clean and fact-based manner. We trust the independent Saxon judiciary." The accusations in the media were largely anonymous, and there were also contradictory reports - in some cases there was talk of forced labor, in others that the prisoners were doing the work voluntarily.
