The deputy leader of Germany’s far-right AfD Party is facing a police investigation after she made anti-Muslim remarks on Twitter on new year’s eve. She could face charges of incitement to hatred.
Beatrix von Storch accused Cologne police of appeasing “barbaric, gang-raping Muslim hordes of men” after officers tweeted a new year greeting in Arabic, the BBC reports.
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