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Court rejects AfD complaint against “suspected extremist” label
A top German court has upheld the assessment of the far-right party by the domestic intelligence agency as a “suspected right-wing extremist” group.
Tuesday’s ruling by the Leipzig federal administrative court on the assessment is final.
It upholds a May 2024 ruling by a higher administrative court in Münster justifying the assessment on the grounds that there was enough evidence suggesting anti-democratic tendencies in the party’s platform.
Among other things, the Münster court said, that there was a “justified suspicion” that a considerable part of its membership was in favor of degrading the legal status of German citizens “with migration backgrounds.”
The classification by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the , of the AfD and its makes it possible for the party to be monitored by all legal means.
These include recruiting undercover informants from among the party’s ranks.
The BfV’s “suspected” assessment was , but pending a court ruling that might take years to be issued.
However, some of the AfD’s regional branches are already being monitored as “confirmed” extremist by intelligence agencies in individual German states.
The AfD is the strongest opposition party in the German lower house of parliament, the Bundestag.
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