German right-wing activist Maximilian Märkl has claimed that prosecutors wanted to raid his home to prove that he had travelled to Portugal to attend the Remigration Summit despite an official ban preventing him from leaving Germany.
“This is extremely ridiculous, given that I was on stage at a live-streamed event and gave several interviews there—not to mention the thousands of pictures that clearly prove I was in Portugal that day,” Märkl wrote on X on Wednesday, June 17th, hinting that the real reason for the planned house raid may have been “retaliation” against Märkl for defying the travel ban.
As we reported earlier, a travel ban was imposed on Märkl by German police at the end of May as he attempted to board a flight from Munich to Porto.
Authorities wanted to prevent him from attending the Remigration Summit on May 30, arguing that his participation could damage Germany’s reputation and that the concept of “remigration” violates the German constitution.
Märkl, a spokesman for the Identitäre Bewegung Deutschland (Generation Identity Germany), was ordered to remain in Germany until the conclusion of the conference and was required to report to his local police station twice daily.
Märkl attended the summit anyway and travelled to Porto by car. Speaking at the event, he acknowledged that legal consequences may follow but said he intended to challenge the restrictions in court.
He said prosecutors intended to seize electronic equipment and conduct a search of his property to “prove” that he defied the travel ban, despite overwhelming public evidence that he had been present at the event.
Märkl said the planned search had already received approval from both the Public Prosecutor’s Office and a court before his lawyers intervened. He credited the law firm Kohlmann with preventing the search by submitting documentation confirming his presence in Portugal, prompting prosecutors to withdraw the application.
Bavarian AfD state parliament member and lawyer Rene Dierkes argued that the proposed house raid demonstrated unequal treatment of right-wing activists.
While clan criminals are able to flaunt their often illegally acquired wealth in public, even though they have clearly committed welfare fraud, the Public Prosecutor’s Office comes down with full force over one of the least serious offences. A symbol of the state of the German justice system in 2026.
The case reflects a broader pattern of increasingly aggressive action by German authorities against activists and ordinary citizens who do not conform to mainstream thinking.
Stefan Niehoff, a Bavarian pensioner who died aged 65 in February of this year, had his home raided in the early hours of a November 2024 morning and his computer confiscated—because he had shared a satirical meme of then-Economy Minister Robert Habeck.
Last June, the German federal police carried out a major operation throughout the country, searching the homes and confiscating the electronics of 170 people over social media comments.
