Right-wing extremism Federal police impose entry ban on activist Sellner

Switzerland has imposed an entry ban on the right-wing extremist activist Martin Sellner from Austria. The order issued by the Federal Office of Police (Fedpol) is valid for 18 days and also applies to Liechtenstein, Fedpol announced in the Federal Gazette on Friday.

The entry ban has been in force since Thursday and is valid until October 27. Sellner wanted to give a lecture in the canton of Zurich on 19 October at the invitation of the Junge Tat organization, which is considered to be right-wing extremist. It had announced on Platform X: "Sellner is coming to the canton of Zurich!"

Such a lecture had already been planned in Tegerfelden AG last March, but the Aargau cantonal police prevented it from taking place. They intervened because they felt that public safety was not guaranteed.

At the time, the Zurich police force had also asked Fedpol to ban Sellner from entering Switzerland, but the federal government had decided not to do so. Fedpol stated at the time: "Radical or extreme views alone are not sufficient grounds for a threat to internal or external security or to justify preventive police measures."

Sellner is the former head of the Identitarian movement in Austria. He talks about "remigration", meaning that a large number of people of foreign origin should leave Germany, for example - even under duress.

SDA