The leaks of the 1,100-page report from the German domestic security service Verfassungsschutz that forms the basis for classifying the AfD as right-wing extremist, continue.
The website «Frag den Staat» has now published a number of statements from AfD politicians that are included in the material the security service uses as a basis for its conclusion about the AfD, writes Die Welt.
Among the politicians quoted are AfD’s leadership duo, Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, as well as AfD representative in the Bundestag Maximilian Krah, and recurring themes in the statements are “xenophobic and Islamophobic attitudes”, according to the German newspaper.
In the excerpt from the report, Verfassungsschutz categorises the AfD politicians’ statements into four areas: «ethnic-racist statements and positions», «xenophobia», «Islamophobia» and «democratic principles»
Among the accusations are these statements from Weidel:
For example, in an interview with a YouTube channel at the end of 2023, Alice Weidel made “sweeping, negative comments about Muslims”. Weidel reportedly said that Germany had created a “massive socio-political problem” with the influx of “culturally alien people”, “which is at odds with our liberal democratic founding order”.
In a campaign speech for the Brandenburg state elections last September, Weidel escalated her anti-Muslim agitation to accusations of an aggressive jihad against non-Muslims in Germany.
Weidel talked about crime against foreigners: “These are phenomena, the massacres, the rapes, which are completely new in our country,” Weidel reportedly said. “What we are experiencing in the German streets is jihad. There is already a religious war against the German population.”
According to Maximilian Krah, the security service highlights a statement on X that the Greens’ migration policy would be tantamount to population replacement.
The report also analyses posts made by the party on social media. Terms such as “knife migration”, “foreign infiltration” and the controversial term “remigration” were used.