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The Munich Public Prosecutor's Office examines radical statements in a Telegram chat group of the AfD.
The Central Office for Combating Extremism and Terrorism (ZET) at the General Prosecutor's Office will take over the examination, said a spokesman for the investigative authority.
On Wednesday, a report by Bayerischer Rundfunk announced that participants in the “Alternative News Group Bavaria” had discussed, among other things, violent protests and a civil war in Germany.
An examination by a public prosecutor's office is not the same as a preliminary investigation.
First of all, it is checked whether there could be a criminal offense.
An administrator of the group is the state chairman and member of the Bundestag Stephan Protschka.
He had said: "There were no contributions to the discussion that called for subversion and / or violence."
The Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution observes the JA and the former "wing"
So far, the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution has not observed the AfD regional association as such, but rather the youth organization JA, the former "wing" - the basin of the nationalist movement in the AfD - as well as individual right-wing extremist party members.
This was announced by a spokesman for the authority.
The authority did not respond to the question of what the protection of the constitution was doing in terms of chat groups.
However, she emphasized: "The Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution, on the basis of its statutory mandate, follows up any information it becomes aware of about extremist and security-endangering activities at any time and on its own initiative."
These would be thoroughly checked - if the legal requirements were met, the intelligence service would start observing individuals and groups of people.
Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) said on Wednesday that the question of observing individual MPs and the party as a whole would arise.
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