There are two other guys in the room, one of them is a candidate in the next state elections and had ties to extremist organizations in the past.
They are all there to hear Matthias Helferich speak at a youth event hosted by members of Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), a well-known far-right group.
Accusations of radicalism have been consistently refuted by the AfD.
But after looking into these three men’s backgrounds, the news discovered a noticeable overlap between AfD leaders and far-right networks, some of which are categorized by German authorities as racist or anti-democratic.
