2024-04-23 17:52:24
“The affair could have explosive consequences”, underlines the Southgerman newspaper. On April 23, German prosecutors announced the arrest of an assistant to an AfD MEP, identified as Jian G. and accused of being “the employee of a Chinese secret service”, reports Politico. He did not work for just any elected official in the European Parliament: Maximilian Krah is head of the list of the far-right Alternative for Germany party in the June elections.
In addition, recalls the media in its European edition, the German authorities have already arrested on Monday “three people suspected of having provided information on military technologies to a Chinese intelligence service”. While in the United Kingdom, on Monday, two men, including a parliamentary researcher, were charged with spying on behalf of China.
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Beijing has contested the German courts’ accusations. “The purpose of this kind of hype is obvious, denounced a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, cité
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