“A lawsuit in this case went to the administrative court in Cologne,” confirmed Daniel Tapp, spokesman for AfD leader Alice Weidel.
In Cologne, the Counterintelligence Agency, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BFV) is based.
“With the help of a lawsuit, the party tries to legally prohibit the authorities of classifying, monitoring and researching AfD as an right-wing and stratist organization” – noticed the DPA agency.
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BFV classified the AfD on Friday as an extremist organization that threatens democracy. The decision was made on the basis of internal expertise of approx. 1.1 thousand. pages. The document emphasized that the assessment is based primarily on the understanding of the nation in AfD, which is based not on citizenship, but above all on origin.
The office emphasized that this concept that dominates in the party based on ethnic categories “It aims to exclude some groups of population from an equal participation in society and treating them in a way that violates the constitution, and thus giving them a legally subordinate status“.
“The statements and views of the AfD and its leading representatives violate the principle of respect for human dignity,” said BFV Sinan Selenium and Silke Willems.
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The classification of AfD as an extremist organization will allow the authorities to use classified methods of monitoring the activities of this group, which took second place in the February parliamentary elections. The BFV decision does not mean the group's outdoor. Only the Constitutional Tribunal may decide about it at the request of one of the parliamentary chambers (Bundestag or Bundesrat) or the government.
