Seven politicians from Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) party are dead—just weeks before voters head to the polls.
The deaths, all reported between August 19 and September 3, have shaken North Rhine-Westphalia, where local elections are set for September 14. What’s causing the unease isn’t just the tragedy itself—it’s the numbers. Out of 16 total candidate deaths across all parties, nearly half (43%) were AfD members. That ratio has many whispering the one word no official wants to hear right now: sabotage.
Kay Gottschalk, AfD’s deputy regional chairman, admitted the deaths were “statistically conspicuous” and “hard to explain.” While police insist there’s “no indication of murder,” and the election committee downplays the figures as “not out of the ordinary,” AfD supporters see a pattern. Online forums are flooded with speculation, connecting the dots in ways the authorities refuse to.
Adding to the intrigue, the AfD is riding higher in the polls than ever before. A mid-August survey even placed them ahead of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservatives, making AfD the most popular party in the country. Their rapid rise, however, comes at a time when Germany’s domestic security service has branded them a “confirmed far-right extremist” organization. In May, the justice minister openly floated the idea of banning the party altogether.
Now, with seven of its candidates suddenly gone, the timing feels chillingly convenient to critics. Is it really just a tragic statistical fluke, or are we watching the silencing of a rising political force under the guise of natural deaths?
The official line is calm, clinical, and dismissive. But the public mood? Suspicious, angry, and unsettled. In a democracy already strained by censorship debates, immigration crises, and collapsing trust in institutions, these “statistically conspicuous” deaths are gasoline on a roaring fire.
For now, the question lingers in the air: coincidence, or conspiracy?
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Anadolu Agency reports that German election authorities have dismissed speculation about the deaths of seven AfD candidates, noting that among 16 total candidate deaths across parties, AfD’s accounted for seven—and there’s no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.Anadolu Ajansı
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Newsweek details that six AfD candidates (four primary and two reserve) died within 13 days ahead of the September 14 NRW local elections; authorities found no signs of foul play, while some AfD figures—including Stefan Homburg—have called the cluster “statistically almost impossible.”News.com.auNewsweek
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Euronews highlights that police ruled out foul play in the deaths of seven AfD candidates, while noting the deaths have sparked widespread conspiracy theories across social media.euronews+1
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Tablet Magazine (subscriber-based) reports that seven AfD candidates died between August 18 and September 1 ahead of the September 14 election—sparking suspicious chatter—even though authorities found no foul play and noted 16 total candidate deaths across parties.Tablet Magazine
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Snopes fact–checked and confirmed the truth of the claim: seven AfD candidates died in the weeks prior to the local elections, and multiple German sources asserted there was no foul play involved.Snopes
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The Independent likewise reported six AfD candidate deaths leading up to the NRW election, quoted officials who ruled out foul play, and documented the social media response, including remarks by Alice Weidel and Elon Musk.The Independent
Zeitgeist…not the ultimate precedent or gold standard, however the Mexico election, aka zionist joo Claudia sheinbaum, evidence of about 37 people assassinated ..https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexican-candidate-assassinations-hit-grim-record-ahead-sundays-election-2024-06-01/ theoretically there are no co-incidence, hard to explain? not really, play spot the goblin, you have a great article on goblins as a national security threat somewhere. “While police insist there’s “no indication of murder,” hahahahaha, look who controls the police, certainly not in woke we trust, hahahahaha, by the way, the justice minister will be “not assassinated” with only “hard to explain” “anomalies” and as for the “confirmed far-right extremist” organization, sounds like the ultra-nationalist billionaire straight white “Canadian” that you write about suffers from the same woke attack vector of persecution towards anyone with virtue. Of course the ultra-nationalist wizard of the great white north speaks German, and travels through time, Deus Vult only sets the stage for the epic moment, and the exoneration, restoration and transformation of Germany, will be sparked off by the tactique Gaulois, oui certainement, the ultra-nationalist will decimate the so called 4th industrial revolution, and present something much more brilliant to the German people and Germany, a restoration and transformation of heart and soul…any astral time traveller can tell you the same thing…see also historyreviewed.best – das wunderbar , maybe you can write on that eh…
That’s definitely a wild mix of politics, corruption, and hidden hands pulling strings. When you see multiple assassinations tied to an election, it’s hard to dismiss the idea that deeper forces are at play. The official narratives often feel paper-thin, especially when authorities quickly rule things out.
The real question is: how much of this is chaos by design, and how much is just the system breaking down in plain sight?