BERLIN — Germany’s far-right AfD party formally warns one of its deputies over a tweet calling Boris Becker’s son a “little half-negro.”
Jens Maier — a former judge and one of more than 90 members of the Alternative for Germany party elected to parliament last year — had attacked Noah Becker over an interview in which he had complained about being seen as the “eternal son” of his tennis star father.
This file photo taken on July 6, 2011. Noah Becker on the sidelines of the Berlin Fashion Week. (AFP Photo/Carsten Koall)
“It seems the little half-negro simply got too little attention — that’s the only explanation for his behavior,” read the tweet posted on Maier’s account last week.
But Maier claims he did not write the tweet, which has since been deleted, saying one of his staff had posted it, in an explanation which appears to be accepted by the party’s leadership.
The AfD does, however, warn him to take greater care in managing his employees.
Noah Becker has filed a criminal complaint against Maier over the tweet, which was also blasted by his father in a scathing column in Sunday’s Die Welt newspaper.
— AFP
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