A leading member of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Björn Höcke, has been fined for using a prohibited Nazi slogan, a regional court ruled on Tuesday evening.
The regional court in the eastern German city of Halle sentenced Höcke to a fine for using symbols of unconstitutional and terrorist organizations.
Höcke, 52, is to pay 100 daily rates of €130 ($140) each, the court ruled.
The public prosecutor’s office had accused the leader of the Thuringian state AfD of having knowingly used a banned slogan of the Sturmabteilung (SA), or Storm Troopers, a Nazi paramilitary group commonly referred to as the “brownshirts.”
A former history teacher, Höcke has denied that he had knowingly used the slogan.
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