German domestic intelligence agencies said on Friday that they have designated the German (AFD) party alternative as a confirmed right-wing extremist group.
The agency said the Federal Office for Constitutional Protection (BFV) said there is now concrete evidence that the Anti-Immigration Party was founded in 2013 and engaged in efforts to threaten Germany's democratic order.
“The party’s general understanding of the people based on race and descendants is incompatible with the basic order of liberal democracy,” the agency said.
The statements and positions of the Party and leading AFD representatives violate the constitutional principles of inviolability of human dignity, indicating that the agency's vice presidents, Sinan Selen and Silke Willems.
The AFD soared to second place in last year's general election, after being held by the agency as “suspected” extremist status. The party challenged the title in court.
