A German politician has been filmed taking large sums of cash from a Kremlin-supporting broadcaster, Czech intelligence has claimed.

Petr Bystron, who is standing for Alternative for Germany (AfD) at European parliamentary elections in June, allegedly received €20,000 (£17,000) in cash from the manager of a Russian propaganda network while sitting in a parked car, recordings indicate.

Mr Bystron, who also sits on the Bundestag’s foreign affairs committee, has previously denied allegations of taking Russian money as a “defamation campaign”.

The Security Information Service (BIS), the Czech Republic’s domestic intelligence agency, now says Mr Bystron met with Artem Marchevsky, who allegedly managed a Kremlin-backed propaganda front called Voice of Europe, at least three times in the past six months.

  • Flying SquidM
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    337 months ago

    There’s a very common mental trapping in humans where, once you’ve identified a serious problem or antagonist, you immediately become more sympathetic to its opposites or declared rivals.

    Which is why I’m very proud of the World News community not to let the justifiable Israel hate go overboard into Hamas support. Most, if not all, of us appear to be smarter than that and know that the Palestinian people are who need to be supported.

    • @captainlezbian
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      247 months ago

      Yeah, the Hamas support is weird. Hamas isn’t a popular front or anything, they’re also fucking over the Palestinian people. They took power and stopped holding elections many years ago.

      The people I want to succeed are the Israeli and Palestinian people seeking to build a positive peace and a constructive cohabitation. That’s the anti Zionism I was sold on. And yes the first step is for Israel to stop massacring civilians.

      • @Burn_The_Right
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        47 months ago

        And yes the first step is for Israel to stop massacring civilians.

        That sounds like the second step to me. As long as conservatives hold power in Israel, the horror will never stop.

        • DdCno1
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          They are relying entirely on numbers provided by Hamas. There is no independent third party counting casualties in the strip.

          • Karyoplasma
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            Conflating the Gaza Ministry of Health with Hamas is a very common propaganda tactic. The truth is that they operate under the de-facto government of Gaza, which is Hamas, but they don’t work for them as in pushing their agenda. Your statement of the numbers being “provided by Hamas” is entirely false tho.

            The numbers they provided in the past passed verification by third party investigations (Examples: 2014 war comparison with B’Tselem and analysis of the current war’s numbers by The Lancet) and are considered to be reliable. During an active war, independent verification is pretty much impossible tho.

          • Flying SquidM
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            37 months ago

            Okay, so where should casualty figures come from?

            • DdCno1
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              It’s fine to admit that we simply don’t know until the war is over. Only then can a true count be possible, without terrorists interfering.

              • Flying SquidM
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                47 months ago

                And who will make the count then?

                • DdCno1
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                  17 months ago

                  Ideally an independent party, like an NGO with no affiliations to Hamas and Israel.

                  • Flying SquidM
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                    17 months ago

                    And how would they make such a count? Dig all the bodies out of the rubble and find where all the unmarked mass graves are?