Activists conned Germany's far-right party out of 5M flyers

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Summary:

> ... AfD didn't have enough engaged supporters, so they were open to hire ... Flyerservice Hahn, a fictitious company.

> @politicalbeauty set up a fictitious website, without registering a company ... created fake Linkedin ... contacting regional offices of the AfD with very low ball offers to hand out fliers

> Close to the election they slowly realized that no flyers were handed out, but @politicalbeauty kept stalling them

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I don't know the German system, but in many countries this would be fraud, and possibly election interference since the goal was political suppression.

In Germany too, at least if the ZPS had signed a contract, sent an invoice or accepted payment from the AfD. But AIUI, the ZPS didn't carry out its duties under an agreement that still hasn't been signed.

My guess is that if this comes in front of a judge, the judge will say "de nihilis" and call it a day.

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