German far right holds congress with ‘hotspot potential’

Hundreds of AfD delegates will gather Saturday for a congress that authorities have warned could become a coronavirus hotspot, as the German far-right party increasingly aligns itself with militants protesting coronavirus restrictions. Six hundred members of the party are due to meet at an unused nuclear plant in western Germany’s Kalkar city to draw up their first concept on pensions. To win approval for the huge gathering at a time when…