The Bavarian AfD is now being observed as a whole party by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. But the authority has extremists of all stripes in mind. Minister of the Interior Herrmann now presents the current developments.
Munich (dpa / lby) - Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) presented on Thursday (10.30 a.m.) the balance sheet of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution for the first half of the year. In particular, the rapid succession of the corona pandemic, natural disasters and the Ukraine war, along with its geopolitical effects, is an ideal breeding ground for extremists to sow mistrust in the state, it said in advance. The President of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Burkhard Körner, is also present at the press conference.
The central message had already become known in advance that the AfD is now also being observed in Bavaria as a whole party by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. A spokesman for the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior announced on Wednesday that the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution had started monitoring the AfD. The "Münchner Merkur" and the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" had previously reported on it.
However, the members of the AfD parliamentary group are not under observation, because the requirements developed by the Federal Constitutional Court for the observation of MPs have not yet been met. The Bavarian AfD announced that it would take legal action.
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and also individual state authorities already list the AfD as a suspected case. A complaint by the AfD against the classification by the Federal Office was decided in the first instance in favor of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, and the party has appealed. The Thuringian AfD is observed by the local Office for the Protection of the Constitution as a secured right-wing extremist effort. In Bavaria, only the youth organization of the AfD, the "Junge Alternative", and any follow-up activities of the officially dissolved right-wing "wing" had been observed. Now the Bavarian AfD is also monitored as a party as a whole.
