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Hanover (dpa / lni) - Lower Saxony's Interior Minister Boris Pistorius has announced that it will carefully monitor demonstrations against corona infection protection measures.
"We find that" Reichsbürger "and right-wing extremists are increasingly mingling with these groups, influencing them and using them for their purposes," said the SPD politician of the "Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung" (Monday).
"Depending on the dynamics, further steps in Lower Saxony cannot be ruled out," said the minister with a view to Baden-Württemberg, where the protection of the constitution observes the so-called "lateral thinking" activists.
He did not want to use the term "lateral thinker", explained Pistorius.
"That would imply that many of these people really thought about the dangers of the pandemic."
The term "freethinker" is forbidden entirely, because in Germany every woman and every man can think what he or she wants.
"And of course also demonstrate for or against."
Pistorius also wants to keep a careful eye on the AfD.
“On the one hand, a few more moderate forces were elected to the board at the latest federal party congress of this party,” he said.
On the other hand, the AfD had "moved so much to the right that those who are now considered to be moderate three years ago were still considered right-wingers".
There are clear indications for a worrying development of the AfD.
"It remains to be seen whether this radicalization will lead to the AfD as a whole having to be put under observation."
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Right-wing extremism and right-wing terrorism pose the greatest danger, he emphasized.
This applies not only because there is a particularly high affinity for weapons there, but also "because the content of right-wing extremist positions have increasingly worked their way into society through right-wing populism".
But he does not have the impression that the Corona regulations promote right-wing populism: "Surveys clearly signal that the vast majority of citizens consider the measures to be right and support them."