Far-right Choice for Germany party less than surveillance
04 March, 2021
Germany’s domestic intelligence firm put the opposition Substitute for Germany (AfD) party under observation on suspicion of extreme right-wing sympathies, media outlets reported on Wednesday.
The maneuver by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) came a lot more than 2 yrs after it announced it had been examining considerably more closely public comments by party members and links to extremist groups.
In January 2019, the agency put the party's youth arm and another now-dissolved faction, The Wing, under covert surveillance over extremism allegations.
The BfV cited as reasons the youth organisation’s goal of creating an ethnically pure country and efforts by The Wing to downplay Germany’s Nazi past.
The Wing, associated with Bjoern Hoecke, a head in eastern Germany, advocated revolutionary means to achieve its political aims.
The BfV refused to touch upon the media reports. THE INSIDE Ministry oversees the firm and said it might neither confirm nor deny the studies, but a statement will be issued on Wednesday.
AfD won 94 seats in the German parliament found in 2017 and became the country’s third greatest party on a great anti-immigration and anti-EU program. But although it was polling at about 15 % in 2019, its support possesses since dropped by about 5 per cent.
Co-chairman Tino Chrupalla accused the BfV of leaking the information to the media so that they can influence opinion about the party.
“The behaviour of the BfV is scandalous,” he told news agency dpa International.
Source: www.thenationalnews.com
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