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Germany designates AfD as right-wing extremist organization, citing threat to democracy (www.euronews.com)

submitted 1 day ago by remington@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] randomname@scribe.disroot.org 2 points 1 hour ago

Quick remainder that the AfD is supported by foreign countries like Russia and China (and Trump and Musk).

A former aide to an AfD politician is being charged of espionage for China

Germany's federal prosecutor's office on Tuesday pressed espionage charges against the former aide of Maximilian Krah, a far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) politician, and a Chinese national, both of whom are accused of working for Chinese intelligence agencies.

Simultaneously, three more people were arrested in the western city of Düsseldorf and the town of Bad Homburg, near Frankfurt, also on suspicion of spying for Beijing.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 5 points 7 hours ago

The afd in Germany and the fvd in the Netherlands

[–] puddinghelmet@feddit.nl 18 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

AFD should be banned, it's a frickin threat to our democracy

[–] ShotgunForFun@beehaw.org 9 points 17 hours ago

It's amazing that it got this far, and that American politics had to get so bad that they've now realized it. Germany was about to repeat history itself even with the laws in place. Deutschland is supposed to know best.

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 8 points 16 hours ago

I am surprised, and happy.

[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 14 points 21 hours ago

The comments on the article are truly an example of justifying being a shitty person as "politics". It's okay to discriminate and harm others as long as a politician does it first!

[–] Kache@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago

Bravo, a proper application of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

[–] Infernal_pizza@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is this just a meaningless label or are there actually consequences for this?

[–] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I'll try to summarize.

Germany's highest court can ban parties that want to dismantle democracy. But that process can only be initiated by the federal government, the federal parliament or a majority of the state parliaments. NOT by the court itself.

Before the election, there was a group of MPs spanning over almost all parties who advocated to initiate said process, but they couldn't form a majority. Other MPs and the government had argued to wait for the report that just now came out and confirmed AfD to be enemies of the democratic order.

So now they don't have any excuses, really. They are morally, but not legally, obligated to ask the court to ban AfD. Said court has signalled in the past that they have enough evidence and that they are eager to start. Whether or not it will happen is not clear, but it has never been more likely.

[–] Infernal_pizza@lemm.ee 4 points 8 hours ago

That sounds promising!

[–] Schorsch@feddit.org 15 points 23 hours ago

It means that the hurdles for the national secret service (Verfassungsschutz) to carry out measures of surveillance are lowered.

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 4 points 20 hours ago

@remington The way it should be

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Germany Relitigates Effects Of Nazism

[–] prex@aussie.zone 1 points 5 hours ago

GREON? I dont understand.