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A writer was arrested in Switzerland for manipulating public opinion, reads a false narrative picked up in Romania by a publication spreading xenophobic, racist and anti-Semitic themes.
A neo-Nazi extremist posing as a victim
NEWS: “Today, Canton of Aargau police have violently interrupted my speech, cut the power off and put me in handcuffs. I have been barred from entering Aargau for two months. Why? I made public my book on #remigration. The police claimed my presentation posed a threat to public order and security in Switzerland. According to police, this was the first “retaliation” of this kind in the last 10 years, when some 50,000 illegals entered the country in 2023! It’s a dark stain on Swiss democracy. Nevertheless, it’s a victory for our movement. They may cuff me, but not our ideas. Remigration is inevitable!”
NARRATIVE: Swiss authorities have arrested a writer because his works are considered a threat to globalist ideology.
BACKGROUND: The advent of far-right organizations and ideologies in the public sphere has gained increased traction among social and political circles in Europe. This phenomenon has multiple causes, and its roots can be traced to growing illegal migration in European states, shrinking economies due to the war in Ukraine and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, but also the scope of conspiracy theories, many of which were designed and promoted by Russian propaganda farms. A prominent such theory concerns migration, invoking a worldwide plot to colonize Europe by bringing over large populations from Asia and Africa, a process that is expected to lead to the extinction of the Caucasian race in Europe, according to a plan devised by the Austrian Count Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi.
Martin Michael Sellner, the “writer” arrested in Switzerland, is in fact an Austrian far-right political activist and the leader of the Identitarian Movement in Austria. His name is also tied to the Neue Rechte (New Right) movement in Germany. Due to his racist and xenophobic remarks, Sellner was banned from entering the United Kingdom in March 2018, and a year later he was also declared persona non grata in the United States. This period coincides with the time the Austrian activist had a number of exchanges with the perpetrator of the March 15 2019 attacks on two mosques in the town of Christchurch in New Zealand. Subsequent revelations showed that, prior to the attacks, the person who killed 51 people had contributed various amounts of cash to the budget of the Identitarian Movement led by Martin Sellner. As a teenager back in 2008, Sellner had been part of the Austrian neo-Nazi movement, demanding the legalization of the symbols of Nazi Germany. He also took part in various commemorative events honoring the soldiers of the Third Reich.
PURPOSE: To promote anti-Western and anti-European speech, to stir and amplify social unrest.
Fact: Sellner violated the law and refused to comply with the instructions of law enforcement officers, and eventually was expelled by local authorities
WHY THE NARRATIVE IS FALSE: Martin Sellner, the leader of the Austrian Identitarian Movement (which German intelligence labeled as a far-right group as early as 2019), went to Tegerfelden, a town in northern Switzerland close to the German border, to take part in an event organized by Junge Tat (Young Deed). On the sidelines of this event, he was supposed to present his book on “remigration”, an extremist political doctrine that entails returning non-European immigrants (by force, if necessary), even when they have obtained the citizenship of their host countries, as well as their offspring (irrespective of having been born in Europe or not) to their country of origin.
What the article in question fails to mention is that the event had not been authorized by the Swiss authorities, and the rental contract for the venue had been cancelled. Originally, the Swiss police called on participants to stop the illegal event, but confronted with their refusal, law enforcement officers had to cut off the power to the entire building. Some of the demonstrators’ refusal to leave the venue voluntarily was met with their forceful immobilization and evacuation from the Canton of Aargau. Martin Sellner was also barred from entering Aargau for the next 2 months. It is obvious the actions undertaken by local law enforcement cannot be described as an arrest, despite the extremists’ insinuations. Moreover, Aargau authorities say the decision to escort Sellner out of the canton was taken in the interest of public safety, to avoid possible clashes with their supporters.
We should also recall that Germany is currently considering the possibility of banning Sellner from entering the country after he attended a big rally of the far right in Postdam in November 2023, where he launched his theory of “remigration”, encouraging the deportation of immigrants from this country.
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