Anna Mirga, who heads ERIAC, comments on the recent victory of the AfD in Sachsen Anhalt and on some of the comments somf prominent AfD politicians have made regarding Roma. One AfD MP ordered people she identified as Roma to sweep the streets. Tino Chrupalla, the AfD deputy leader and Bundestag MP suggested that a cache of weapons found in a forest near Berlin had likely been lost by Roma people who had “gone mushroom picking.” he oldest stereotype—that Roma are criminals and backward people—served as a cheap political ploy. The crowd laughed.

• Posłanka AfD kazała osobom, które uznała za Romów, zamiatać ulice. Zwycięstwa AfD zagrażają nie tylko Romom i Sinti. In: Wyborca. 07.10.2027. https://wyborcza.pl/7,75968,33064925,poslanka-afd-kazala-osobom-ktore-uznala-za-romow-zamiatac.html