Germany's far-right AfD party expelled from European Parliament group

The move comes as a Greens politician told reporters in Brussels that the EU's far-right parties are a "major risk" to the continent.

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00:00Nine far-right Alternative for Germany members have been kicked out of the far-right Identity

00:10and Democracy European Parliament faction.

00:13The German political party said in a statement it was taking note of ID's decision, but was

00:19nonetheless optimistic about the EU elections in June.

00:23ID said it gave AFD the boot because it did not want to be associated with incidents related

00:29to Maximilian Krah.

00:3147-year-old Krah was the AFD's top EU Parliament pick before he made controversial comments

00:37about Nazi soldiers to an Italian newspaper.

00:40He said that not all members of the Nazi's elite SS unit, which was involved in major

00:46war crimes during World War II, were war criminals.

00:49The AFD removed Krah from his leadership position following the missive.

00:54Krah responded by writing on ex-formerly Twitter that the statements were being misused

01:00to hurt the party.

01:01It comes one month after one of Krah's assistants was also arrested on espionage charges.