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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- The secret services in Weimar are responsible for submitting their annual constitution protection report to the administrative court, a duty mandated by the German constitution.
- In response to the 2021 report, parties such as the AfD in Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt have challenged their classifications as extremist organizations by the respective state offices for the protection of the constitution.
- The administrative court in Weimar is currently handling a lawsuit filed by the Thuringian AfD against certain sections of the 2021 constitution protection report, alleging violations of objectivity and neutrality.
- In Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, the secret service has determined that the local AfD associations present confirmed extremist risks, which has prompted backlash from the parties with legal challenges.
- Following the Thuringian AfD's classification as a confirmed right-wing extremist organization in March 2021, the party has taken an aggressive legal stance, privately describing their strategy as an attempt to "fillet" their opponents piece by piece.
- The controversial classification of the Thuringian AfD has divided opinions, with the party maintaining that several passages in the 2021 report, including accusations of extremist Islamophobia and attacks on the rule of law, are unfair and unlawful.
Source: www.stern.de
