Wed Oct 4, 2023 – 5:24 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The co-head of the anti-globalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) has said that he was debanked for his political views.
During a recently aired talk show on Germany’s state-funded public TV station ARD, Tino Chrupalla said that his bank account “was canceled by Postbank because I am an AfD member.”
For Chrupalla, this was evidence of “how we are marginalized, discredited,” and that one is no longer allowed to express one’s opinion freely.
Asked for comment by German newspaper Welt, Postbank replied that it does not comment on individual customer relationships due to banking secrecy and that it cannot, therefore, say anything regarding the reasons for the alleged termination of Chrupalla’s account.
Postbank, a subsidiary of financial giant Deutsche Bank, did, however, note that it could close anyone’s bank account at any time. “In principle, both business partners have the possibility to terminate an account relationship without giving reasons,” a representative of Postbank told Welt.
This would not be the first instance that the bank account of a member from the populist AfD was closed without a reason. In 2018, Deutsche Bank terminated all accounts of AfD politician
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