Germany Ex-President for the Protection of the Constitution Maassen new chairman of the Union of Values – Merz calls for party exit As of 3:12 a.m | Reading time: 4 minutes "Mr Maassen has become the specter of the Union" The CDU has succeeded in presenting the union of values as a "party-damaging bunch," says political scientist Werner Patzelt. The background is the candidacy of the former head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution for the presidency...
from Ron SteinkeWas the German domestic secret service run by a disguised right-wing extremist for six and a half years? That is a legitimate question when you read what Hans-Georg Maassen, former President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and a secret service pensioner since 2018, has been posting on the Internet for some time, especially in the past few days. The current migration policy, he writes, is "an expression of a green-red racial theory, according...
from Iris Mayer, LeipzigAt the height of the hot autumn, Jürgen Elsässer stands on a stage in Leipzig and yells "Ami go home". It's a cold November Saturday, and for weeks the publicist of the right-wing extremist Compact-Magazin together with lateral thinkers, the splinter party "Freie Sachsen" and scene leaders drummed for the solidarity. 15,000 should come. But when Elsässer called into the dark in front of the Federal Administrative Court: "Patriots from all walks of life, patriots from left...
The German digital, electricity and gas networks are in the sights of foreign secret services! According to information from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), intelligence services and other possible saboteurs are systematically searching the Internet for information about our energy networks.This is reported by the Southgerman newspaper", citing a "safety notice for the economy" from the Federal Office, which is available to the newspaper.︎ In order not to provide any indications of possible attack targets,...
CSU regional group head Alexander Dobrindt has called on the federal government to provide more support for cities and communities in accommodating refugees from Ukraine, for example. "We are experiencing a brutal war by Putin against the civilian population with the destruction of energy, water and supply resources," said the chairman of the CSU deputies in the Bundestag. "Of course, this will then cause new migration movements," he added. Dobrindt assured that those seeking help would be supported. “But this...
The President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Thomas Haldenwang, sees little resistance to extremist tendencies in the AfD. He also rates the "heterogeneous mixed scene" of the so-called Reich citizens as worrying. From the point of view of the protection of the constitution, the AfD is now steering almost unchecked towards the far right. "We hardly notice any more forces that are trying to oust the extremist tendencies from the party," said the President of...
After connections between two arrested people and the AfD became known, the party leader tried to downplay the Reichsbürger raid.Of Roland Preuss, BerlinThe AfD party and faction leader Alice Weidel spoke on Tuesday of a "desired walker coup", alluding to the age of several suspects. The large-scale raid against the Reichsbürger scene with 3,000 officials was a "boom", a "staging". The AfD leadership is trying to get on the offensive when it comes to Reich citizens. The investigation and the...
Reich citizens deny the existence of the Federal Republic and believe in conspiracy ideologies. But only five percent of them are counted by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution as right-wing extremists. Why actually? source site
The judgment of the AfD parliamentary group leader from Saxony-Anhalt was clear. "Morally reprehensible," said Oliver Kirchner in a video interview with the right-wing extremist at the end of last week Compact-Magazine. The federal prosecutor's office had just had the members of a Reich citizens' network arrested, whom they accused of having formed or supported a terrorist organization. However, Kirchner did not find the alleged conspiracy to overthrow the political system reprehensible, but rather the fact "that the government is...
The federal prosecutor's investigations into suspected conspirators from the so-called Reich Citizens' Movement have fueled the debate about extremists in the civil service. A general suspicion against members of the security authorities and the armed forces is inappropriate, said the president of the reservists' association, Patrick Sensburg Rheinische Post. What is needed, however, is a "much more consistent crackdown" on people like one of those arrested, an ex-officer. He is known for his attitudes, there are criminal proceedings against him,...
