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SVP National Councillor Andreas Glarner also likes to lash out - but he doesn't want to be called a "gaga right-wing extremist": The Aargau High Court rules on the case. (archive picture)
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Andreas Glarner and Hansi Voigt will stand before the Aargau High Court on Tuesday: the SVP National Councillor had filed a criminal complaint after media entrepreneur Voigt called him a "gaga right-wing extremist" in a tweet, among other things.
He could not live with the term, Glarner said in court. "When you think of right-wing extremist, you immediately think of Nazi." He is at home in the democratic camp - a right-wing extremist is outside of it, Glarner said.
Glarner is not a Nazi, Voigt said in court. "But he is not a normal SVP member either." An extremist is someone who uses violence to achieve their goals. And Glarner repeatedly used digital violence, for example by publishing the telephone number of a teacher he did not like, said Voigt.
The public prosecutor's office had sentenced Voigt to a conditional fine of 40 daily rates of 200 Swiss francs. The Bremgarten district court acquitted him in February 2024. Glarner and the public prosecutor's office appealed to the high court.
25.03.2025, 09:40
