The Supreme Court of Germany rejected complaints from domestic intelligence agencies about Germany’s (AFD) far-right alternative, the court said on Tuesday, which classified the party as a suspected right-wing extremist group.
This means that the decision of the regional administrative court that supported the classification was final last year.
The German federal domestic intelligence agency, the office that protects the constitution, classifies the AFD and its now-disbanded Youth Wing as a suspicious extremist movement, which allows the agency to monitor the party.
The AFD took legal action against the assessment, but the Administrative Court in Cologne dismissed the challenge. Münster’s High Administrative Court also rejected the appeal, finding enough confirmation that the French were working to undermine the basic order of liberal democracy.
After the holidays when Muster Court refused to appeal its judgment, the court referred the matter to the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig, which rejected the final challenge of the case.
Since then, domestic intelligence agencies have upgraded their assessments and classified the AFD as a parliamentary election in February, a confirmed right-wing extremist group.
However, the classification released in early May has been suspended until another legal challenge raised by the party has ruling.
Meanwhile, the party’s regional branches were monitored by right-wing extremist groups identified by state intelligence.
