German intelligence wrangles with courts over AfD extremism

NAMPA / DPA

2026-03-01

Erfurt, Germany (dpa) - The head of the domestic intelligence agency in the German state of Thuringia has praised a decision taken by its partner agency in Lower Saxony to rate the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as extremist. Stephan Kramer said he had long expressed the opinion that AfD extremism was evident not only in the states of formerly communist East Germany but also in the states of former West Germany. Thuringia lay in East Germany......

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