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Demonstration of the Identitarian Movement in Berlin (archive picture)
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The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution is allowed to call the Identitarian Movement "definitely right-wing extremist".
As a spokesman announced, the Berlin Administrative Court rejected an application by the Identitarian Movement last Thursday.
In 2019 she sued against this classification in the report for the protection of the constitution.
In previous years, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution processed the group, which is said to have around 600 followers nationwide, as a "suspected case."
With its judgment, which is not yet final, the court followed the tenor of the decision in the urgent procedure from last June.
Seehofer calls identities "intellectual arsonists"
At that time, the judges cited, among other things, the identity movement's demand for ethnic and cultural homogeneity to justify the classification as right-wing extremist.
The Identitarian Movement warns of a "population exchange" in Europe.
Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) had already called the Identitarians in 2018 when the constitution protection report was presented as “intellectual arsonists”.
In May, the Berlin administrative court also found the mention of the youth of the AfD (Young Alternative) and the now formally dissolved "wing" of the party in the 2019 report on the protection of the Constitution to be legitimate.
In 2019, the Federal Office classified both the Young Alternative and the "wing" as suspected cases of extremist sentiments.
This assessment still applies to the AfD's youth organization.
In contrast, the domestic secret service now observes the "wing" that the Thuringian AfD country chief Björn Höcke founded in 2015 as a "secured right-wing extremist endeavor".
The formal dissolution does not mean that the observation ends.
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