AfD report leaked: The constitutional protection writes about the AfD

The AfD has been viewed critically since it was founded. The protection of the constitution declared four regional associations to be right -wing right -wing extremist. According to the authorities, reasons have accumulated enough in recent years: inhuman statements and positions of the party and members, anti-democratic efforts, a questionable understanding of the folk. In any case, the domestic intelligence service writes it in its 1108-page report about Germany’s largest opposition party.

In May, the authority finally declared the Federal Party anti -constitutional. She kept the report under lock and key, but the and from the document. In it, accessible sources such as speeches, interviews and other contributions from 353 members were analyzed by party leader Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla and the member of the Bundestag Maximilian Krah and named as sometimes anti-democracy, foreign and Islamic positions. In the “top management structure of the AfD” there is a “solidified xenophobic attitude”, the constitutional protection sums up.

The party leadership then reacted outraged. Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla complained of “misuse of state power to combat and exclude the opposition”. The AfD is now complaining against the protection of the constitution as secure right -wing extremist.

The Protection of the Constitution has been the AfD as a right -wing suspicion since 2021. The report draws the image of a party that has moved to the right in recent years. Members of the Liberal Conservative Side have gradually left the party. The constitutional protectors have observed radicalization in particular since 2023 and a “moderation is not apparent”. The nationalist warehouse dominates, according to the report.

Formers of the party would differentiate between “real” German and “pass German”. People with a migration background would be considered second -class people in the party. The report provides evidence based on xenophobic, racist and ethnic statements by AfD members.

The AfD member of the Bundestag and chairman of the then youth organization Junge Alternative, Hannes Gnauck, said at an election campaign event in Brandenburg last August: “We have to decide again who belongs to this people and who does not. Each one of you connects more with me than any Syrian or any Afghan.” That is “just a natural law, and we can all be damn proud of that.” Gnauck is said to have spoken of “population exchange” in another speech.

In the chapter “Islam hostility”, the protection of the constitution calls an interview by Alice Weidel with a YouTube channel at the end of 2023, in which it had “negatively negative about Muslims”. Weidel said that Germany had created a “massive socio -political problem” with the influx of “non -cultural people”, “which is contrary to our free democratic basic order”.

In an election campaign speech to the state election in Brandenburg last September, Weidel then increased “her anti-Muslim agitation to accuse of an aggressive jihad against non-Muslims in Germany”.

Weidel spoke about foreign crime. “These are phenomena, the fesser, the rapes that are completely new in our country,” Weidel is quoted. “What we experience on the German roads is the jihad. A war of faith against the German population is already being waged here.”

Terms such as “knife migration”, “knife immigration”, “Messer-Jihad”, “Underfish” or the controversial concept of “remigration” are not spontaneous outbursts, but are a regular narrative within the AfD.

But the party is not only directed against minorities and migrants. The domestic intelligence service accuses the members of also judging the “principle of democracy” in the Basic Law. As examples of this, the report cites statements by AfD politicians who defame politicians from other parties as “traitors”.

In April 2023, Co-party leader Chrupalla disparaged the CDU politicians Friedrich Merz and Norbert Röttgen as well as the then Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) as “vassal America”. The AfD European politician Maximilian Krah has explained to a statement by the Green politician Katrin Göring-Eckardt on migration policy on X: “This Green General Plan means rehearse.”

The authority emphasizes that not every polemical criticism is a case for the protection of the constitution. However, it becomes critical when the political opponent is denied the right to exist.

The high classification of the AfD as secure right -wing extremist in Germany has again fueled the debate on a ban on the party. The new federal government is still holding back. Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that the constitutional protection report had to be analyzed before it could be assessed politically. “And before such an evaluation is not made, I personally do not want to give any recommendations for further conclusions on the part of the government,” said Merz.

However, the Chancellor clearly rejects a choice of AfD MPs to committee chairman in the Bundestag after the high level by the domestic message service. “Since the last weekend at the latest, it has also been inconceivable to me that MPs in the German Bundestag vote for AfD MPs to be committee chair.”