AfD Politician Who Distributed Weapons To Speak At UK Far-Right Party Event

On 3 March 2025, The Fer­ret report­ed that a Ger­man far-right politi­cian who dis­trib­uted weapons banned in the UK and met with neo-Nazis will speak at a UK con­fer­ence about mass depor­ta­tion of migrants. The arti­cle begins:

A far right Ger­man politi­cian who hand­ed out weapons and met with neo-Nazis is set to speak at the Home­land Par­ty’s UK con­fer­ence focused on the mass depor­ta­tion of migrants. Alter­na­tive For Ger­many (AfD) politi­cian, Lena Kotré, report­ed­ly dis­trib­uted Kub­otans – self-defence stab­bing weapons which are legal in Ger­many but banned in the UK – at cam­paign events in Berlin last year. Kotré, who was reelect­ed to the Bran­den­burg state par­lia­ment in 2024, claimed the weapons would help Ger­mans pro­tect them­selves against vio­lence. She has been con­firmed as a speak­er at an April con­fer­ence run by the Home­land Par­ty, which is led by a Scot and reg­is­tered at a West Loth­i­an address. The fringe far right par­ty has no elect­ed rep­re­sen­ta­tives, but an inter­na­tion­al counter-extrem­ism organ­i­sa­tion claimed the AfD was giv­ing “val­i­da­tion or cred­i­bil­i­ty” to Home­land, which it brand­ed as a small group of “white suprema­cists”. Home­land dis­missed the com­ments, how­ev­er, and argued it was not extreme for Euro­peans to want to “pro­tect their own eth­nic iden­ti­ty, cul­ture and homeland”…

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Key Points:

• Lena Kotré, an AfD politi­cian, will speak about “rem­i­gra­tion” at the UK Home­land Par­ty’s April con­fer­ence focused on deport­ing migrants.
• Kotré dis­trib­uted Kub­otans at Ger­man cam­paign events and report­ed­ly attend­ed a neo-Nazi con­fer­ence in Switzerland.
• The Home­land Par­ty, reg­is­tered in Scot­land with no elect­ed rep­re­sen­ta­tives, advo­cates for nation­al­ism based on ances­try and “law of blood.”
• Counter-extrem­ism experts express con­cern about AfD giv­ing “val­i­da­tion” to what they describe as “a very small group of white supremacists.”

For more on the AfD, go here.

For more on the Home­land Par­ty, see here.

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