Germany’s domestic intelligence service has withdrawn its newly announced classification of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as a confirmed extremist organization — at least temporarily.
Just six days after the agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, also known as the BfV, said it had gathered “definitive evidence” that the AfD seeks to undermine Germany’s democratic order, the BfV told an administrative court in Cologne that it will suspend the classification while legal proceedings are ongoing.
The BfV will now monitor the party only as a “suspected case,” a lower-tier designation that still allows surveillance, but under stricter judicial oversight.
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>The BfV will now monitor the party only as a “suspected case,” a lower-tier designation that still allows surveillance, but under stricter judicial oversight.
What is the German judiciary like?
The issue is that they can’t produce evidence, because they are all the extremists in the party.
That’s why the NPD was never banned, it would require showing evidence, which would reveal the identities of the third of the party leadership that was agents.