The former head of Germany’s intelligence agency has criticised the country’s leader Angela Merkel over her immigration policies, saying that they are leading the country into a decline.
Hans-Georg Maassen previously ran the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Germany for six years before being forced out in 2018 after publicly contradicting the chancellor’s claims that foreigners had been ‘hunted’ in the city of Chemnitz during civil unrest in the area.
The 58-year-old’s remarks at the time, which questioned evidence of such ‘hunts’, caused a huge scandal and rocked Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
