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AfD Challenges “Right-Wing Extremist” Designation in Court

The right-wing populists Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is suing Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, BfV, after it designated the party as a “right-wing extremist” organization, opening the door for constant police surveillance or even banning.

Suspiciously issued just after AfD took over the ruling CDU in the polls and became Germany’s most popular party, BfV’s decision was clearly “politically motivated” and represents a “severe blow to German democracy,” AfD co-presidents Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla said in a statement last Friday. They promised to keep fighting for the freedom of expression and challenge the ruling with all legal tools available.

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Should the AfD be banned? Germany’s dilemma after spy agency ruling

Friedrich Merz’s expected confirmation as Germany’s next leader this week will take place in the shadow of a row about whether to ban the rival far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party after it was formally classified as “extremist” by the country’s intelligence services.

Merz, 69, a multimillionaire former corporate lawyer, is set to be elected as chancellor by parliament on Tuesday after his centre-right Christian Democrat Union (CDU) agreed on a “grand coalition” with the Social Democrats following weeks of detailed negotiations.

The Nazis are in charge.

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Not Bombed Enough

Germany defends AfD extremist classification after Rubio slams ‘tyranny in disguise’

Germany’s Foreign Office has defended a decision to classify the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party as right-wing extremist, after sharp criticism from the White House.

US Vice-President JD Vance accused “bureaucrats” of rebuilding the Berlin Wall, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio slammed the designation as “tyranny in disguise”.

In an unusual move, the foreign office directly replied to Rubio on X, writing: “We have learnt from our history that right-wing extremism needs to be stopped.”

The intelligence agency that made the classification found AfD’s “prevailing understanding of people based on ethnicity and descent” goes against Germany’s “free democratic order”.

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AfD classified as extreme-right by German intelligence

Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has been designated as right-wing extremist by the country’s federal office for the protection of the constitution.

“The ethnicity- and ancestry-based understanding of the people prevailing within the party is incompatible with the free democratic order,” the domestic intelligence agency said in a statement.

The AfD came second in federal elections in February, winning a record 152 seats in the 630-seat parliament with 20.8% of the vote.

Germany is fecked.

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Proving the Point: German Journalist Convicted for Free Speech Meme

Despicable woman

In a despicable attack on the freedom of speech, a German right-wing journalist has been sentenced to seven months’ probation for mocking left-wing Interior Minister Nancy Faeser.

In its verdict on Monday, April 7th, the district court in the Bavarian town of Bamberg also ordered David Bendels to apologise in writing to Nancy Faeser.

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Mystery of Russian web searches about Mannheim attack days before it happened

Russian internet users were searching for information about a terror attack in Germany several days before it occurred, according to an investigation that suggests Moscow may have had advance knowledge of the violence.

In May last year a rejected asylum seeker from Afghanistan killed a police officer and wounded five other people with a knife in the western city of Mannheim, as he apparently sought to assassinate a far-right critic of Islam.

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Germany: Priest calls altar boy a ‘Nazi’ and fires him after he takes photo with AfD politician

An altar boy who served in a Bavarian church for nine years was slammed as a “Nazi” by the parish priest and dismissed from his position after the boy took a photo with Alternative for Germany (AfD) politician Maximilian Krah.

The family says they are shocked by the conduct of the Bavarian priest.

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Foreigners Behind 40% of Violent Crimes in Germany, Report Finds

Almost two-in-five violent crimes in Germany last year were committed by foreigners, according to shocking details revealed on Wednesday, April 2nd, in a new police report.

Though criminal activities overall decreased last year by 1.7% compared to a year earlier, the number of violent crimes increased by 1.5% to 217,277 cases.

Crimes such as murder, rape, sexual assault, robbery, as well as dangerous and serious bodily harm, are all classified as violent crimes. Police record around 600 of these crimes every day.

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Is Germany heading for a Russia reset?

Well, that didn’t take long. Peace negotiations over an end to the war in Ukraine are barely underway, and senior German politicians are already calling for their country to resume its ties to Russia.

The next German government is set to contain fewer people who have a problem with that, and the lure of a return to cheap energy is great. Is Germany on the brink of reverting to its pre-war relationship with Moscow?

I think the jig is up since the Ukraine conflict was revealed as having morphed into a Deep State forever war against Russia without the approval of congress.

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German Governments Ban Police From Joining AfD

Nice job you have there. It would be a shame if you were to lose it for being disloyal to the ruling clique.

Of course, the powers that be in Germany don’t call their threats to fire supporters of AfD an assurance that the people they hand guns to are committed to enforcing the speech codes of the German elites’ choosing; they couch their order in the much nicer sounding assurance that everybody has the same loyalty to the Constitution as the ruling clique.

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Foreigners Drastically Overrepresented in Berlin Crime Statistics

More than 50% of the perpetrators of violent crimes committed in Berlin by men are foreigners, German media outlet Junge Freiheit reported.

According to police statistics, of the 12,284 male suspects arrested last year, 6,407 did not have a German passport.

This means that foreigners are overrepresented when it comes to violent crime: foreigners make up 24.9% of Berlin’s population, yet an astounding 52.2% of male criminals do not possess a German passport—the rate for this was 50.5% in 2023.

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German Ruling Parties Want to Ban AfD “As Soon As Possible”

The economy is in crisis and the constant influx of migrants is threatening to destabilise society—yet the German mainstream parties’ main concern is their right-wing opposition Alternative für Deutschland (AfD).

According to media reports, the left-wing Greens are intent on pushing through a motion in parliament to ban the AfD “as soon as possible”, and it seems that they have the support of all the other parties.

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