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In the matter everything remains as usual.
There is still a serious and extensive suspicion that the AfD as a party as a whole is promoting right-wing extremist efforts against the free, democratic constitutional state.
Because in it there is no substantial distancing from the officially disbanded völkisch wing.
It is therefore in fact the supporting organization of its informal, but ideologically persistent network.
In addition, large parts of the AfD question the constitutional order during protests against the Corona protective measures with insane “dictatorship” slogans and suggest a fundamental resistance to it.
The decision of the Cologne Administrative Court does not change anything in this assessment.
Nothing has changed legally, either.
In no way was prejudiced, let alone concluded, on Friday the express proceedings in which the AfD tried to prevent the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution from classifying it as a suspected case and from making such a classification public.
How the court will decide on this is open.
The current notification expressly states that the decision that has now been passed is not an “urgent procedure in the urgent procedure”.
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What it is all about is this: The Federal Office is expressly forbidden to classify the party accordingly until the end of the urgent procedure and to make this known.
That is of course bitter for the authorities.
Firstly, as it became known on Wednesday, she has already declared the party a suspected case and must now somehow let this rest until the end of the urgent proceedings.
And secondly, the Federal Office is embarrassed because it had explicitly promised the court in January that it would not disclose anything publicly.
The authority has actually not published anything under its President Thomas Haldenwang.
But there must be a leak somewhere - whether inside or outside the constitution protection group - through which essential information about dealing with the AfD has been leaked to the public for weeks.
It is extremely damaging to the necessary work of the authorities if the secret service is not kept secret.
This is all the more true during ongoing legal proceedings in which the AfD, as the plaintiff, has the indispensable right not to make public what should not be made public.
If it turns out that there is a leak in the constitution protection group, this must have consequences.
The AfD is currently benefiting.
She now has the resolution that she wanted from the start.
AfD top politicians like Alexander Gauland and Tino Chrupalla shortened it on Friday, distorting the meaning by suggesting without reference to its provisional nature that the Federal Office would have been somehow generally prohibited from classifying the party.
But we already know such distortions from this party.
Likewise, that she always poses as persecuted innocence, without being persecuted and innocent.
But just because you know that, you shouldn't give her the opportunity to sing the old wrong songs again with piercing.