GERMANY: Bjoern Hoecke of the far-right Alternative for Germany has been convicted for a second time of using a Nazi slogan at a public event.

Mr Hoecke, the party’s leader in Thuringia, was fined €16,900 (£14,300) today for leading the crowd in a chant of “everything for Germany,” a slogan of the Nazi Stormtroopers (SA). He had previously been fined €13,000 (£11,000) for the same offence.

Mr Hoecke says he is innocent and was just using “everyday words.”