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The Saxon State Office for the Protection of the Constitution apparently wants to classify the AfD in Saxony as an alleged suspect case shortly. There are also considerations to focus more on “Pegida”.
By Georg Mascolo, Sebastian Pittelkow and Katja Riedel, WDR / NDR
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (LfV) is expected to decide next spring whether to classify the AfD as an observation case. Apparently Saxony wants to take a closer look, regardless of a national agreement.
Furthermore, there are plans to focus more clearly on the association “Pegida” in Dresden in the near future. I learned this WDR, NDR and “Süddeutsche Zeitung” (SZ) from various sources in security circles. Consequently, the LfV Sachsen should already have written a request to the Ministry of the Interior of Saxony, the Ministry should accept the procedure. The Saxon Ministry of the Interior declined to comment on the request.
Test cases may not be published
Upon request, the LfV said it was not allowed to comment on the current legal situation. According to Saxon state law, it is not allowed to make public a classification as evidence or suspicious case. The Saxon authorities can only report on an observation case, not on a suspicious case.
As a general rule, the classification as a suspicious case is linked to the fact that the protection of the constitution can use intelligence services, for example, telephone surveillance. It is unclear whether this will be the case in Saxony. The AfD had already successfully sued the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) at the federal level because it had made the AfD test case public last year.
From the environment of the Parliamentary Control Commission of the Saxon state parliament, it emerged that the constitution protection believes that three AfD members of the state parliament have seen reliable evidence of right-wing extremist references. These findings should be related to the statements, as well as your connections with organizations that can be located on this spectrum. There should be at least one such suspicion in three other deputies.
Many radicals among the Saxon “lateral thinkers”
Saxon security authorities are also said to be concerned about the evolution of the “lateral thinking” movement. In Saxony, a relatively high proportion of right-wing and far-right extremists are seen as asking to participate in events, it was heard. This should include many supporters of the Reich citizens and the self-government scene.
Calls from politics to focus more on the movement have increased recently. It was said from security circles that at least one federal state had decided to take the “lateral thinking” movement into account. The head of protection of the Thuringian constitution, Stephan Kramer, recently had a Deutschlandfunk-The interview attracted attention.
He said that in recent weeks and months the LfV Thuringia has established, in addition to legitimate forms of protest, “that the Reich citizens, right-wing extremists, anti-Semites and fanatics of conspiracies are on the move, and these are many efforts. against the basic democratic-liberal order. ” Domestic intelligence agencies generally view such efforts as a reason to target the respective organizations. The AfD Saxony could not yet be reached by phone.
