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German courts split over Correctiv report on far-right 'remigration' meeting

Thursday, 16 April 2026, 16:03 · 1 min read

Two German regional courts have reached contradictory rulings on the same article by investigative outlet Correctiv (a nonprofit German investigative journalism platform) about a secret far-right gathering in Potsdam in late 2023, where ideologue Martin Sellner presented a so-called masterplan for "remigration" — the mass removal of people with foreign roots from Germany. The Hamburg regional court found in December 2025 that Correctiv's characterisation of the meeting as a plan to "expel German citizens" was a permissible opinion, while the Berlin II regional court ruled in March 2026 that the same phrase constituted a false statement of fact, violating the personal rights of AfD (Alternative for Germany) parliamentarian Gerrit Huy, who attended the meeting. Both rulings are subject to appeal, and the dispute is expected to work its way through multiple higher courts, including potentially the Federal Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights.

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