Domestic intelligence agency to start monitoring elements of anti-immigration partyGermany’s domestic intelligence agency is to start monitoring elements of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD),placing specific focus on Björn Höcke, a nationalist agitator considered one of the driving forces in a move to take the party towards the extreme lawful.
The BfV said it would also be keeping the party’s youth wing, and Young Alternative (JA),under surveillance and would investigate whether the AfD as a whole should be put on its official watchlist, but said it still had inadequate evidence for doing so. Related: Germany remembers Rosa Luxemburg 100 years after her murder Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com