The Cologne Administrative Court has classified the youth organization of the right-wing populist party AfD as “particularly extremist” (see video above). So far, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution has only considered the case as suspicious. The AfD and its youth organization can still file a complaint against the decision.
The case had already started in April 2023. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) announced at the time that there were indications that the youth organization Junge Alternative (JA) was contrary to the fundamental democratic order. Therefore, the Junge alternative is now classified and treated as a confirmed right-wing extremist effort. The AfD and its youth organization subsequently filed a lawsuit, but the Cologne Administrative Court rejected the application.
Court: “Instructions consolidated”
“The factual evidence of anti-constitutional efforts has become certain since the court ruling of March 8, 2022, which dealt with the classification of the JA as a suspect case,” the report said. The youth organization continues to represent an ethnic concept based on ethnic origin, and the demand for the exclusion of ‘ethnic aliens’ is a violation of human dignity. Asylum seekers are generally suspected and degraded, immigrants are “generally described as parasites and criminals (…).”
Another reason for the classification, according to the Administrative Court of Cologne, is that the Federal Republic is equated with dictatorial regimes, “in particular the Nazi regime and the GDR”. Furthermore, the Junge Alternative has ties to organizations classified as anti-constitutional, such as the Identitarian Movement. The court’s reasoning is no less than 70 pages long.
Here you see a tweet from Nancy Faeser.
Faeser: “Instruments work”
After the verdict, Minister of the Interior Nany Faeser (SPD) praised the fact that the instruments of the rule of law work. “Today’s decision makes it clear that we are facing enormous contempt for humanity, racism, hatred of Muslims and attacks on our democracy,” she said on Tuesday. The decision is not yet legally binding.
Source: Krone
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