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Constitutional protection report deals with administrative court

In March 2021, Thuringia's Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies the AfD state association as right-wing extremist with certainty and provides a detailed justification in a report. The party is now taking legal action against individual passages in the report.

Files lie on the table before a trial in a district court. Photo.aussiedlerbote.de
Files lie on the table before a trial in a district court. Photo.aussiedlerbote.de

Secret services - Constitutional protection report deals with administrative court

The administrative court in Weimar is dealing with a lawsuit filed by the Thuringian AfD against parts of the 2021 report on the protection of the constitution, a spokesperson for the court confirmed when asked. The lawsuit was received in mid-August. "The parties involved in the legal proceedings are currently submitting written submissions on the matter," said the spokesperson.

It is unclear when a decision will be made. It is also completely unclear whether the AfD will be successful with its plan. In the meantime, the AfD state associations in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt have also been classified as confirmed extremist by the respective state offices for the protection of the constitution.

Thuringia's AfD co-leader Stefan Möller announced this summer that he intended to take legal action against passages in Thuringia's report on the protection of the con stitution. The report for 2021 contains a detailed justification for the classification of the Thuringian AfD as a confirmed right-wing extremist organization. The AfD is not legally defending itself against the classification.

Möller described the AfD's strategy as follows: "You can carry out a decapitation strike if you want to fight your opponent, or you can fillet him piece by piece." In March 2021, the Thuringian AfD with its state party and parliamentary group leader Björn Höcke was classified as confirmed right-wing extremist by the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

According to dpa information, the AfD considers several statements in the report to be unlawful and argues that they violate the state's requirement for objectivity and neutrality. This includes a passage in which the Thuringian AfD is accused of a "form of extremist Islamophobia" as well as the points in the report "attacks on the rule of law" and "historical revisionism". The point "Violations of the principle of democracy" was not addressed. Thuringia's head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Stephan Kramer, declined to comment, citing the ongoing proceedings.

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