A regional branch of the far-right Alternative for Germany party has been distributing fake "airplane tickets" to promote the deportation of people to a "secure home country." Police are investigating.

The AfD in the German city of Karlsruhe has been posting fake ‘deportation tickets’ to voters, including those with a migration background. The incident is being investigated by police as a hate crime.

A chapter of the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, party in the southwestern city of Karlsruhe has drawn criticism for sending migrants mock deportation notices designed as plane tickets to their "safe country of origin".

German police are investigating an election campaign flier by a far-right party that looks like a plane ticket and calls for the deportation of 'illegal immigrants.'

Police have launched an investigation into an election campaign leaflet being circulated by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which, designed as a facsimile of a plane ticket, calls for the deportation of “illegal immigrants.

The “Deportation Ticket” stunt is being compared to a similar campaign in 1930s Germany by the Nazis. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Flyers look like plane tickets, with passenger listed as ‘illegal immigrant’ and date of travel set as Feb 23 – election day in Germany

The incident comes as far-right leaders are embracing increasingly radical proposals to deport migrants en masse ahead of a national election.

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party sent "deportation tickets" for "illegal immigrants" to mailboxes around the city of Karlsruhe, a local AfD official confirmed to dpa on Tuesday. Police in the western city have launched an investigation into the campaign stunt on suspicion of incitement to hatred.

In a chilling throwback to fake tickets Nazis sent out fake to Jews offering to send them to Jerusalem, Germany’s far-right party AfD has distributed fake plane tickets to migrants telling them to lea