The Supreme Court of Germany ruled today that the German intelligence service can continue to consider the right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a “potential extremist” party, giving the service the right to monitor the party, among other things, through telephone surveillance.
With this decision, the Higher Administrative Court of Münster affirmed a previous decision by a lower court in Cologne.
Germany’s intelligence service has classified both the party and its youth organization, the Young Alternative (JA), as “suspected far-right extremist organizations”.
The lower court in Cologne, where the intelligence service is based, affirmed this classification in 2022, thereby allowing the service to monitor it as suspicious.
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However, the party appealed the decision, which has now been upheld by the Higher Administrative Court of North Rhine-Westphalia in Münster.
The decision cannot be appealed.
