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German intelligence puts far-right AfD groups under surveillance

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    clerical_terrors
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    This seems like a rapid progression from ousting a spymaster over suspected Far-right sympathies. What happened in that window of time that the BfV is so suddenly and so publicly jumping into action?

    This seems like a rapid progression from ousting a spymaster over suspected Far-right sympathies. What happened in that window of time that the BfV is so suddenly and so publicly jumping into action?

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        I was thinking of that as well but it still seemed like a stretch to me. Of course the fact that the AfD are the only ones whose data wasn't exposed is very remarkable, but on it's own it's...

        I was thinking of that as well but it still seemed like a stretch to me. Of course the fact that the AfD are the only ones whose data wasn't exposed is very remarkable, but on it's own it's probably not enough of an indictment to publicly announce suspicion of them.

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            The AfD is pretty borderline in many ways, but they wouldn't be the biggest offenders Germany has ever had (a lot of Neo-Nazis still show up in Dresden every year).

            The AfD is pretty borderline in many ways, but they wouldn't be the biggest offenders Germany has ever had (a lot of Neo-Nazis still show up in Dresden every year).

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