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German intelligence agency to monitor anti-migrant PEGIDA movement
10.05.2021
The anti-Islam and xenophobic PEGIDA movement is to be monitored by the German domestic intelligence agency at state level, the agency s head in the eastern state of Saxony said on Friday.
According to the Agency for the Protection of the Constitution, as the domestic intelligence agency is known, PEGIDA forms an inescapable component of the right-wing extremist environment .
PEGIDA, which started out in late 2014 as a protest movement against what it saw as the increased Islamisation of German society thanks to immigration and asylum seekers, had evolved into an anti-constitutional movement over the years, the agency s head in Saxony, Dirk-Martin Christian, said in the state capital of Dresden.
German Federal Intelligence Agency watching anti-lockdown radicals
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Anti-lockdown radicals within the so-called Querdenken (Lateral Thinking) movement are to be monitored by the Federal German Domestic Intelligence Services, the Interior Ministry said in Berlin on Wednesday.
The decision allows the Agency for the Protection of the Constitution, as the domestic intelligence agency is known to collect information on persons identified as posing a risk.
The agency’s branch in the south-western state of Baden-Wuerttemberg has been monitoring Querdenken activists since December, and federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer indicated earlier in April that he anticipated the decision by the federal agency.