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After the double attack in Hanau, with nine dead immigrants, the majority of Turkish origin in addition to a Romanian, the eyes are now directed to the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD), a party they want to put under surveillance of the Federal Office of Protection of the Constitution for spreading racism and xenophobia in his political discourse and tolerating in his ranks individuals close to National Socialism. The president of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer , spoke directly of "Nazis."

"Hanau's attacks clearly had a racist motivation," said Interior Minister Horst Seehofer , who described the deterioration of the situation in Germany as racism, hate and xenophobia as "very high." "Hanau's has been the third terrorist attack of the extreme right in recent months," said the minister to announce later that "we will significantly increase the police presence throughout Germany especially at sensitive points, in stations, in airports, in synagogues, at borders and in mosques. "

Seehofer reported that in recent days records have been increased in different parts of the country and numerous weapons, explosive material and even hand grenades have been requisitioned. "Right-wing extremism is the biggest threat to security in Germany right now," he said.

The Federal Prosecutor's Office has confirmed in the meantime that the author of the shooting, a 43-year-old German with a gun license was "disturbed" and not only because of the material found at his home, but also because of the entries found in the records of the Office of Criminal Investigation.

According to the attorney general, Peter Frank, the public ministry had contact with the aggressor in November, when he filed a complaint against a powerful organization that had infiltrated people's minds to force them to do terrible things . Due to the sense of the complaint, which did not reveal that Tobias Rathjen was a racist, no investigation was carried out. Also the father of the aggressor was in the past in contact with the authorities, through a series of letters from which the content has not yet transcended. The Prosecutor's Office has taken a statement as a witness.

Tobias Rathjen ended on Wednesday with the lives of nine immigrants shooting them in some cases directly to the head , as some survivors have reported, in two different scenarios. Then he drove home, killed his 72-year-old mother, and committed suicide. Both had bullet impacts.

That the aggressor did not appear to be in his right mind was a possibility that gained strength as the Prosecutor's Office advanced yesterday in clarifying the facts. The leader of the liberal party, Christian Lidner, asked, however, to end the political climate that favors hatred. "If we listen to certain leaders we don't have to spin fine to imagine that their propaganda can influence individuals or groups," he said.

"AfD is the political arm of hate"

"Hate is a manifestation of madness, yes, but if it focused on a very determined group of the population, you have to think to what extent the harmful political discourse influences that manifestation," he added.

The debate about the tragedy of Hanau continues and, regardless of the profile of the aggressor, there is a coincidence in the political class in which the Hanau attacks must mark a before and after.

"AfD is the political arm of hatred," said Cem Özdemir, one of the most respected figures in the Los Verdes party, who ask as a party to draw consequences from attacks that, despite the strength of democracy in Germany, deepen the gap already opened by the far right.

For the secretary general of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Lars Klingbeil, these consequences go through putting AfD under the supervision of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (secret Interior services). "It has become clear that AfD must be put under observation and I hope that the state security organs will adopt and implement that decision quickly," he said.

In similar terms, the spokesman of the parliamentary group of the liberal party (FDP), Konstantin Kuhle, has also spoken today, for whom it is enough to listen to the speech of some of its leaders to conclude that the party is moving in a critical direction for the State. One of the AfD leaders who always come up is Björn Höcke, head of the group of the federated state of Thuringia and exponent of the most radical wing of the party.

Against Höcke there are several complaints about inciting the population to hate and the members of its current - Der Fluge, (The Wing) - are already under surveillance by the Interior's secret services. The last complaint started from the prosecutor's office of the city of Dresden after a speech on the edge of the legal framework in an act on the weekend of the Pegida anti-migration movement.

Höcke, however, was one of the first AfD leaders who made statements after the double attack in Hanau. He expressed his condolences to the victims and close friends, described the killing as "without reason" and said that "the madness advances in this country."

Shortly after, AfD closed ranks and responded to the more or less veiled accusations of responsibility in the propagation of racism and xenophobia with the argument that its author was disturbed., According to the video and manifesto found by the Federal Prosecutor's Office.

Indeed, the aggressor's living will, a 43-year-old German with a weapons license, oozes paranoid delirium , builds conspiracy theories and contains a sickly, deep and perverse hatred of foreigners.

For all this "to involve AfD in this matter is a shameful attempt to instrumentalize the attacks to attack a political rival," said the former party president and head of the parliamentary group, Alexander Gauland.

According to the Interior spokesman of the parliamentary group of the CDU, Mathias Middelberg, the faction has already begun to work on a change in the federal law for the Protection of the Constitution in order to eliminate obstacles to the surveillance of the Interior's secret services.

These services "examine" the AfD case since last year, after having detected extremist tendencies in some sectors of the party, and especially in "the wing" and among the youth. Examining does not mean "formal observation" or surveillance, which would be the next step. The difference is that in the exam the secret services cannot make use of their technical resources to intercept communications or implement certain spying methods, such as the use of confidants. The AfD branch in Thuringia that runs Höcke if it is under surveillance.

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