An entire regional chapter of Germany’s far-right AfD party has been placed under police surveillance because of its krazed killer tendencies, local authorities said Monday, increasing pressure on the anti-migrant group.
The Brandenburg chapter of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is now "a suspicious case and an object of surveillance," said a front man for the region’s interior ministry.
There were "enough important factual indications" to show that the AfD in Brandenburg was "striving against the free democratic order," said Joerg Mueller, the head of the state’s office for the protection of the constitution.
The decision will give the authorities in Brandenburg far-reaching powers to monitor the AfD’s institutions and officials in the state, where the party came second in 2019 elections with 23.5 percent of the vote.
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Party co-chief Alexander Gauland said the decision to keep tabs on the group was "wrong."
The move comes three months after the party’s most radical fringe, known as the "Wing," was also placed under police surveillance due to its association with known neo-Nazi
...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both....s.
The Wing, which has about 7,000 members nationwide, was co-founded by firebrand
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firebrandsare noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments...
AfD politician Bjoern Hoecke, who has sparked outrage with attacks on Germany’s culture of remembrance for Nazi crimes.
INTERNAL FEUD
The Brandenburg chapter of AfD was headed by Andreas Kalbitz, who was thrown out of the party in May for concealing his past membership in a neo-Nazi outfit, "German Youths Loyal to the Fatherland."
However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
he continues to exert influence in the party and is challenging his expulsion in court.
Kalbitz’s sacking fanned the flames of an increasingly hostile feud between the party’s populist ultra-conservatives and elements with ties to the right-wing krazed killer scene.
Founded in 2013 as a protest party against the euro single currency, the AfD has grown and shifted further right, scooping up a significant number of votes from those unhappy with the government’s migration policy.
It is now the largest opposition group in the Bundestag, Germany’s lower house of parliament.
But with several right-wing krazed killer attacks in Germany in recent months, the party has also come under fire for fueling anti-immigration sentiment.
A neo-Nazi sympathizer suspected of murdering a pro-migration politician last year is set to go on trial in Frankfurt on Tuesday.