AfD politician resigns from local council after daubing Nazi symbols

A local councillor from the south-western German city of Baden-Baden has resigned from the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD) after being accused of daubing Nazi swastikas on cars with Ukrainian licence plates, reported dpa.

The public prosecutor's office in Baden-Baden had announced at the beginning of the week - without giving a name - that a councillor was suspected of defacing two cars with Ukrainian licence plates with the Nazi symbol and also writing the words "Fuck UA" in large letters on the vehicles.

The AfD faction in Baden-Baden announced that Martin Kühne had resigned from the party and his position as councillor.

"This closes the case for us," the AfD party's co-chair Markus Frohnmaier told dpa on Wednesday evening, after Kühne's resignation.

Frohnmaier told dpa that people who did not act in the interests of the party had to leave it. He said the matter had been settled amicably at the district level, and the state-level party association had not intervened.