The far-right Alternative for Germany party has become increasingly influenced by extremist conspiracy theorists, according to the head of German domestic intelligence.
The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has warned that the Alternative for Germany (AfD) has become increasingly extremist and anti-democratic as the far-right party, surging in opinion polls, picks new candidates for EU elections.
Thomas Haldenwang, president of Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), told the DPA news agency that some of the AfD candidates had expressed “far-right extremist conspiracy theories” during the party conference in Magdeburg, where the selections were made over the weekend.
Haldenwang said party members were swapping openly racist theories such as the “Great Replacement,” which holds that political elites are deliberately introducing nonwhite migrants into Europe to supplant the white race.
Yea just a conspiracy – Germany in a state of SIEGE: Merkel was cheered when she opened the floodgates to migrants. Now, with gangs of men roaming the streets and young German women being told to cover up, the mood’s changing
