BBC confronts AfD's Frohnmeier with document

Name: BBC confronts AfD's Frohnmeier with document
Uploaded: 2019-04-05T04:03:41.000Z
Duration: 2 min 17 s
Description: Markus Frohnmeier, a deputy in the German Bundestag for the far-right AfD party, said a document in which he appears to seek support from Russia was fake

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In 2017, BBC Newsnight's Gabriel Gatehouse met Markus Frohnmeier in Stuttgart. He showed him a document which appeared to be written on behalf of Frohnmeier’s campaign for election to the Bundestag, asking for support from Russia.

Frohnmeier denied ever having seen it and said it was "fake".

Europe

5 April 2019