AfD member Peter Bystron is fighting back against the smear merchants who lied and tried to tie him to Russia.
Last year the globalist left targeted AfD member Petr Bystron before elections alleging he was a Russian agent. The allegations were as fake as the Trump-Russia allegations pushed by Barack Obama and Democrats for years.
Bystron is a member of the conservative, anti-open border party AfD that continues to gain prominence in Germany politics.
As TGP reported last year:
After days of agitation in the European mainstream media, the popular AfD politician Petr Bystron has now become the target of a death threat combined with blackmail. As BILD reports, Bystron’s Bundestag office in Berlin received an anonymous letter with the text: “…if you value your life, then you quickly collect €100,000 and call here…”
The blackmailer insulted the AfD foreign politician as an “asshole” and added a collage with Bystron’s photo with a painted Hitler beard. The Bundestag police are taking the matter seriously and have started investigations (file number Vg/949/2024). The AfD politician said to the German Newspaper BILD of the death threat: “These are the fruits of the smear campaign of the last few days. I ask Czech Prime Minister Fiala: ‘Is this what you wanted to achieve?’”
Several insider authorities in Prague are accusing Czech Prime Minister Fiala of being personally responsible for mentioning Bystron’s name in connection with an affair surrounding the news portal “Voice of Europe.” At the beginning of last week, the Czech secret service made it public that it suspected two Ukrainians of covert propaganda for Russia. The accusations of collaborating with the portal and even taking money were directed against six European parties, all of which are against the war in Ukraine.
Bystron told the Czech newspaper BLESK that this was revenge for his appearances at the anti-government demonstrations in Prague, such as the demonstration on Wenceslas Square last year, where hundreds of thousands of Czechs cheered the AfD politician and at the same time loudly demanded the resignation of the hated Fiala government. According to the latest surveys, only 2% of its own citizens trust the Czech government.
On Wednesday, Petr Bystron’s office announced that the AfD memeber was filing defamation charges against one of the groups that smeared him as a Russian agent during last year’s campaign.
Bystron accuses the organization of having defamed him in a campaign in March by portraying him as a “politician paid by the Russians.” In posters and social media posts, the group depicted Natálie Vachatová, an adviser to Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, as a security risk and featured her alongside Bystron.
“Such defamatory allegations led to investigations against me lasting two years, including a total of 29 house searches — without a single piece of evidence being found or any charges being filed,” Bystron said in explaining the lawsuit. In addition to financial compensation, he is demanding the immediate removal of the posts, a cease-and-desist order, and a public apology published on the association’s channels.
Vachatová and the photographer of the image used in the campaign, Petr Štěpánek, have also initiated legal action against the organization. Štěpánek is suing over copyright infringement and unpaid licensing fees, while Vachatová has filed a defamation claim. Vachatová became the target of weeks-long attacks by the association after it emerged that she was working on legislation aimed at significantly restricting NGO financing. Bystron himself came under attack from several Czech NGOs and media outlets after repeatedly criticizing the former government in public.
So far, Milion chvilek pro demokracii has not responded to the lawsuit or to media inquiries. The organization is regarded as controversial in the Czech Republic and is viewed by critics as a tool for the defamation of political opponents. Critics accuse the group of one-sided support for the ousted Fiala government, as well as of smearing and intimidating the government’s political opponents. The organization’s founder, Mikuláš Minář, has been accused of embezzling up to 7.3 million Czech crowns donated by supporters.
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