resentment, Consider, but also the commitment and the will to co – react the countries in different ways, after the Federal office for the protection of the Constitution (BfV) has taken the AfD more targeted. Trouble there is, because the BfV on the 15. February in Berlin – and earlier than expected – the decision was announced, the AfD as a test case to be classified. The Young Alternative (JA), as well as the right-winger Björn Höcke-run “wings” are treated as a “suspected case”. The countries did not know the 442-page report by the BfV to the extremist menace in the AfD, YES, and “wings” still, the BfV submitted the paper on 15. January.
On Wednesday now, almost all the heads of the state authorities for the protection of the Constitution with the President of the BfV, Thomas Haldenwang met in Cologne, to the other procedures. The DGINS conference had asked the BfV, the result of the previous verification process to the AfD “in close consultation” with the country’s authorities to “promptly implement”, according to the Federal office. Previously, the Constitution looks to protection in the countries now in more detail to the right-wing populist party.
Saxons
Already at 15. January of Saxony protection of the Constitution was announced, similar to the BfV, the national Association of AfD as a test case to be classified as well as YES, and “wings” as a suspected case. In a test case of the protection of the Constitution may views only publicly accessible Material. In the case of a suspected case, the use of V-people, and other intelligence is possible. The rapid reaction in Saxony, was amazing, because the did not want to freely participate in the state-first, the collection of Material for the report by the BfV. Saxony supplied. The collection of material with the findings from the 16 länder and the Federal office for the AfD grew to a total of 1069 pages. The BfV distilled the report to AfD, and “wings”.
Bavaria
On Tuesday informed of Bavaria, the protection of the Constitution, which would, YES, and the “wings” worked well on the basis of the findings of the BfV as an “observation objects”. The term “suspected case” does not exist in Bavaria. Object of observation is, that the constitutional protection of intelligence resources as in Observation and V-support people can. The state office for constitutional protection (LfV) “intensified” in addition, the examination of open sources “in terms of an extremist orientation of the Bavarian land Association of AfD”.
Already longer single party to be observed members and officials, among other things, for Links with the extreme right-wing scene. It was a “lower two-digit number,” it says. The LfV finished, however, the observation of three AfD-people, than they won at the state election in October 2018 with a mandate. In 2017, the protection of the Constitution had already set the observation of the then chief of the AfD in Bavaria, Petr Bystron, after his election to the Bundestag.
On Wednesday caused AfD Deputy in the Bavarian Landtag a commotion at the memorial service for the victims of the Nazi regime. The right-wing populists left the room, to play down as the President of the Jewish community of Munich and upper Bavaria, Charlotte Knobloch, in her speech, the AfD is accused of the crimes of national socialism.
Baden-Württemberg
At the request of the daily mirror, it turned out that the protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg leads since September 2018, the national Association of AfD as a “test case”. This had not been communicated in order to avoid legal problems with the party, it said in Stuttgart. Known, however, was in November of 2018, and that the protection of the Constitution started observing the national Association of YES. The authority refers to “remuneration” which may indicate “YES” to right-wing extremists, “the joint anti-constitutional political goals”. Because of the similar radical “wing” in Baden-anonymous-Württemberg, will be tested in a monitoring only “”.
North Rhine-Westphalia
According to the decision of the BfV in North Rhine-Westphalia protection of the Constitution said the national Association of AfD to the test case. The YES is, probably, as from the BfV set, as a suspected case is classified. In the case of the observation of the “wing” provides NRW the Federal government.
Thüringen
in Thuringia, and the protection of the Constitution had classified in September, the regional AfD as a “test case”. The party sued the then Minister of the interior, Georg Maier (SPD), and the protection of the Constitution boss, Stephan Kramer. A spokesman for the Ministry said now, it will also be tested in accordance with the decision of the BfV “more”. Although Björn Höcke both the BfV to the “suspected case” declared “wings” as well as the national Association of AfD, change in Thuringia. Even when the YES is checked only. In Erfurt is to hear, one reason is the reluctance of the government sitting to the left party, against the protection of the Constitution and counter-intelligence activities, including the use of V-people.
Bremen and lower Saxony
The protection of the Constitution in the two countries had begun in September 2018, to watch the Young Alternative. In the classic manner. The news service looks in Bremen and lower Saxony, the AfD offspring, there is a proximity to the right-wing extremism. The lower Saxony YES broke up in November, but the protection of the Constitution looks to continue what the previous members. In both countries, it is also conceivable that the AfD, the Association will be a test case.
other countries
Berlin is investigating whether the national Association of the AfD, seen as a test case, and the observation of YES, and “wings”. Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Schleswig-Holstein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse, Saxony-Anhalt and the Saarland also, to sharpen the view on the AfD. The Hamburg constitutional protection looks on the other hand, according to the opinion of the BfV are not serious problems. The national Association of AfD is not an object of observation, which is hardly present, and the “wings” in the city don’t active it. Hamburg constitutional protection boss is not took part on Wednesday at the meeting with the BfV in Cologne.
