Authorities say several more people suspected of being involved in planning a far-right coup and plotting to kidnap the German health minister have been arrested in raids in a number of regions.
A recent study by Germany’s Institute for Human Rights exploring the possibility of banning the Alternative for Germany (AfD) has put the far-right political party under the spotlight.
Published on 7 June, the study says the AfD now poses such a danger to the country’s democratic order “it could be banned by the Federal Constitutional Court.”
AfD can be legally banned because its explicit goals are “to eliminate the free democratic basic order” and “abolish the guarantee of human dignity” enshrined in Germany’s constitution, claims the institute.
3 weeks ago: Germany bans neo-Nazi group Hammerskins Deutschland
2 weeks ago: Germany bans decades-old neo-Nazi group Artgemeinschaft, accused of trying to “raise new enemies” of the state
Yesterday: Far-right AfD says it is now ‘major all-German party’ after state elections
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