In Berlin Christoph Heubner, Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee, commented on the political consequences of the raid against the far-right (Reichsbürger) milieu as follows:

"It is both bizarre and ridiculous how the AfD is presently attempting to squirm its way out of its longstanding support and incitement within the Reichsbürger Milieu. It is more than just the newly arrested, former AfD Bundestag MP, Ms Malsack-Winkemann, who are part and parcel of the party. The AfD is also pursuing its ongoing activities of installing far-right networks both within and outside the German Bundestag with the aid of their MPs and their assistants.

Consequently, the time has come to focus more clearly on the AfD in the German Bundestag, particularly under security aspects, and to point out their responsibilities for current developments in the far-right milieu. The astute wakefulness and the robust response demonstrated by the democratic state with the recent raid now need to be matched by democratic society in general, in order to ward off even greater aggressive threats from enemies of the constitution."