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The protection of the constitution recruits informers in the AfD and its youth party Junge Alternative.
This is reported by the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung”, citing the party and the protection of the constitution.
The President of the Brandenburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Jörg Müller, said: “The law wants us to capture the AfD milieu with intelligence resources.
So we do it - also with 'covert information providers'.
I can't complain about the access situation at the moment. ”According to the report, AfD members also volunteered as sources in some federal states.
Such offers have so far been refused by the authorities because there were doubts about the motives.
The head of the constitutional protection working group in the AfD, Roland Hartwig, reports meanwhile of “slightly less than five” cases in which members of the party youth refused to work as informants for the secret service.
Among other things, recruitment attempts in Baden-Württemberg are known.
In how many cases the attempts were successful is unclear.
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The President of the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Stephan Kramer, stated that his authority did not use any informants in the area of the AfD.
“Finding sources takes the longest.
You can't stop them in the street and say, 'I'll buy you an ice cream, tell me.'
That's where you put most of your work into, ”Kramer told the newspaper.
When it came to smuggling spies into political parties, Kramer said: "Forget it."
The constitutional protection authorities are preparing a nationwide classification of the AfD, says the report.
At the moment the party is being run as a “test case” in some countries and as a “suspected case” in others.