Test case AfD : the protection of the Constitution holds Gauland for more problematic than Meuthen

The Federal office for the protection of the Constitution (BfV) considers the AfD-Chairman Alexander Gauland for significantly more problematic than the Co-chief Jörg Meuthen. This is one of the not-yet-published report by the BfV for the classification of the party as a "test case". The 442-page paper the daily mirror.

In the report mentioned Gauland in particular more than 90 times, Meuthen, there are less than 20 entries. Only in comparison to Gauland as a more radical force AfD-politician Hans-Thomas till, Schneider, and Björn Höcke appear more frequently. Höcke is mentioned more than 600 times.

The Höcke-run AfD-Association "The wings" is considered by the BfV as a "suspected case" and thus tougher than the whole party.

The BfV Gauland certified "völkisch-nationalist society images" and a "defamation of those who are not part of the own, upgraded group". A "violation of the prohibition of discrimination in article 3 of the basic law has to be seen to".

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In the opinion is quoted from a speech Gaulands at the Congress of the Bavarian AfD in June 2018. Gauland had said, "we should resolve as a people and Nation in a Whole. But we have no interest in humanity. We want to remain German.“

Gauland is also maintained, "is a common right-wing extremist Narrative". In a speech in June 2016 Gauland said that it was the policy of many social forces and the churches, "that this country will disappear from the earth, and, so to speak, only to still have any us foreign population here". According to the findings of the BfV Gauland is in favour of in Utterances "clearly a deportation policy that suspends migrants, torture, the death penalty, or other impairments of human dignity".

The Federal Agency also expects that the AfD chief delegitimized the credibility of parliamentary democracy "aware". Gauland had been accused in October of 2018, the Congress of the Brandenburg AfD to the other parties a "Multicultural ideology", the "the extortion by the SED ideology" is similar.

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In the speech Gauland have also put "the democratic order as a Whole in question, as alleged unjust regime branded and, ultimately, the legitimacy denied".