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reConstitutional protection has started recruiting V-people in the AfD and its youth party “Junge Alternative”. This was confirmed to the FAS by the AfD and the protection of the constitution. The head of the Brandenburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Jörg Müller, said that the informants were active in the AfD in his state. “The law wants us to capture the AfD medium with intelligence resources. So we do that, also with ‘covert information providers’. Currently I cannot complain about the access situation, “said Müller of the FAS. In some federal states, AfD members voluntarily used themselves as sources for the secret service. Sometimes such offers are rejected because there are doubts about the motives.
Justus bender
Policy writer for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.
The head of the working group for the protection of the constitution in the AfD, Roland Hartwig, said he was aware of just under five cases in which members of the party’s youth had refused to be active as the so-called V-people. for the secret service. The youth party chairman, Damian Lohr, reported an attempt to recruit a member who was later excluded for other reasons. There are said to have been several cases of unsuccessful recruitment attempts in Baden-Württemberg. On the other hand, the AfD does not know how many have consented to a collaboration.
“Finding sources takes more time”
Other federal states still refrain from recruiting informants. The chairman of the Thuringian Constitutional Protection Office, Stephan Kramer, explains the reluctance on formal grounds. The secret service must have first exhausted other observation possibilities before a V-men operation is provided, and this takes a lot of effort. “Finding sources takes more time. You can’t stop them on the street and tell them: I’ll buy you an ice cream, tell me. That’s where you put most of your work, ”Kramer said. When it came to smuggling spies into political parties, Kramer said, “Forget it.”
The president of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Thomas Haldenwang, with the federal Minister of the Interior, Horst Seehofer, at a press conference in the summer.
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Green MP Konstantin von Notz, who oversees the secret services in the Bundestag’s parliamentary watchdog, opposed the idea that constitutional protection was hesitant to use intelligence. “My impression is that the Office for the Protection of the Constitution takes this very seriously. They already know what they are doing, ”von Notz said.
The constitutional protection authorities are preparing a national classification of the AfD. At the moment, the match is being run as a “test case” in some countries and as a “suspect case” in others. There are also different classifications for the youth party and the officially dissolved “wing”. In December, the authorities want to come up with a unified assessment and will most likely announce it in January or February. The AfD as a whole is expected to upgrade to a “suspicious case.” This means that it can be observed anywhere. The chairman of the parliamentary watchdog in Baden-Württemberg, Hans-Ulrich Sckerl of the Greens, said this “was not a political decision”, but one of the authorities, according to “relatively strict technical and legal criteria”.
