Swiss police “stormed a speech, turned off the electricity, handcuffed me and performed a push back,” Martin Sellner writes on X.
An Austrian activist was arrested by police in Switzerland on Saturday for giving a presentation against mass migration.
Martin Sellner, the leader of the Identitarian Movement of Austria, was preparing to deliver a presentation from his book about deporting illegal migrants when Canton of Aargau authorities shut off the lights and proceeded to arrest him.
“Today the police in the Kanton of Aargau, Switzerland stormed a speech, turned off the electricity, handcuffed me and performed a push back. I am not allowed to enter Aargau for 2 months. The reason? I presented my book about #remigration. The police claimed that this presentation was a danger to Swiss security and public order,” Sellner wrote on X, where he included a video of the incident.
Today the police in the Kanton of Aargau, Switzerland stormed a speech, turned off the electricity, handcuffed me and performed a push back. I am not allowed to enter Aargau for 2 months. The reason?
? I presented my book about #remigration. The police claimed that this… pic.twitter.com/ze7Bx5kd5y
— Martin Sellner ? (@Martin_Sellner) March 16, 2024
“According to the police, it was the first push back like this in 10 years, while 50,000 Illegals entered the country in 2023!”
“This is a disgrace to Swiss democracy. But it still is a win for our movement. They can handcuff me, but not our ideas. Remigration is inevitable!” he added.
This authoritarian incident caught the attention of X owner Elon Musk, who asked, “Is this legal?”
“In Europe things are getting unpredictable. It is literally more risky to challenge illegal immigration, than to immigrate illegally,” Sellner replied.
In Europe things are getting unpredictable. It is literally more risky to challenge illegal immigration, than to immigrate illegally.
— Martin Sellner ? (@Martin_Sellner) March 16, 2024
As Sellner noted, Switzerland saw over 50,000 illegal migrants cross the border in 2023, the majority of which came from Afghanistan.
“Migrants from Afghanistan represented the lion’s share of the figures published on Wednesday – almost one in three of those stopped at Switzerland’s borders. They were followed by nationals from Morocco and Turkey, each accounted for one in eight undocumented stays,” Swiss Info reported in January.
Don’t these authoritarian stunts by police run completely counter to Western countries that espouse democracy and freedom of speech?
