German security service panic-stricken

This is happening at a time when the nation is dealing with the consequences of the European elections in which the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) won second place.&quot;We are noticing a new increase in the number of violent right-wing extremists,&quot; agency head Thomas Haldenwang told dpa.The Office for the Protection of the Constitution will next week present a report for 2023. The big jump of about 14.5 percent of registered extremists - that&#39;s about 38,800 people - Haldenwang attributes to the classification of several provincial AfD organizations as extremist organizations.The agency registers about 10,200 members of the party and its youth organization as right-wing extremists.The AfD was classified as a potentially extremist organization in March 2021. The party appealed, but lost a ruling by a higher regional court in May.The state branches of the AfD in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia are already registered as extremist right-wing organizations.Such a classification gives the services wider powers to monitor the party and its members.The AfD won 15.9 percent of the German vote in Sunday&#39;s European Parliament elections and came out ahead of Chancellor Olaf Scholz&#39;s Social Democratic Party. It is also the best result of the party since its establishment 11 years ago.The party is growing on an anti-immigration populist platform, profiting from the fear of the population at a time of economic hardship and focusing it on newcomers, economic immigrants and asylum seekers.

German security service panic-stricken

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