A regional branch of the nationalist Alternative for Germany party has been distributing fake "airplane tickets" to promote the deportation of people to a "secure home country." Police are investigating.

German police are investigating an election campaign flier by a far-right party that looks like a plane ticket and calls for the deportation of 'illegal immigrants.'

The AfD in the German city of Karlsruhe has been posting fake ‘deportation tickets’ to voters, including those with a migration background. The incident is being investigated by police as a hate crime.

German Police have started investigating the Alternative for Germany (AfD) over its campaign in Karlsruhe in the south of the country. Members of the local organization of the anti-immigration party sent fliers to mailboxes that seem to be airline ticket boarding passes and have the phrase "deportation ticket" written on them.

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has been embroiled in controversy after distributing campaign flyers that resemble "deportation tickets" in the city of Karlsruhe. #EuropeNews

Flyers look like plane tickets, with passenger listed as ‘illegal immigrant’ and date of travel set as Feb 23 – election day in Germany

In a chilling throwback to fake tickets Nazis sent out fake to Jews offering to send them to Jerusalem, Germany’s far-right party AfD has distributed fake plane tickets to migrants telling them to lea

The incident comes as far-right leaders are embracing increasingly radical proposals to deport migrants en masse ahead of a national election.

The “Deportation Ticket” stunt is being compared to a similar campaign in 1930s Germany by the Nazis. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Fake one-way plane tickets have been posted in the mailboxes of migrant families ahead of Germany ’s critical elections in February. Alternative for Germany’s (AfD) – the far-right populist party unequivocally endorsed by the richest man in the world and soon Donald Trump ’s advisor, Elon Musk – is behind the stunt.