The AfD since the beginning of 2019 in the visor of the secret service, the Left already feels like an eternity. Bundestag Vice-President of Pau is pulled so often before the court. Now, an important judgment is expected.
The protection of the Constitution-President Thomas Haldenwang (R) hopes on a successful appeal in a dispute with Petra Pau
In the meeting room II of the higher administrative court of Münster on Wednesday (31 to. July) for a ground-breaking decision. A number of politicians of the Left want to know, what is the domestic white secret service about you. Most prominent plaintiff Petra Pau and Bodo Ramelow are. The a is since 2006 Vice President of the German Bundestag, and the other since 2014 head of the government in Thuringia. “You desire information in case files at the Federal office for the protection of the Constitution (BfV) about your Person saved data”, – stated in the appointment notice of the court.
The administrative court of Cologne has determined that the data storage already in 2014 as illegal. Nevertheless, Pau and Ramelow can only guess at what is written about them in the property files to your party. The protection of the Constitution has filed an appeal. This litigation is in the extension, the Left and the secret service is already on for over a decade on different levels of lead.
The secret service came out, only a blackened file
Already in 2006, applied for Pau, information on all of the information that had been collected by the Federal office for the protection of the Constitution presumably since the German reunification, about you. With the result of the in the GDR, who grew up a politician, but anything other than happy was. Although the BfV by the administrative court of Cologne was obligated to Pau-scale people file out the back, but she only received a with many black bars on the ornate copy.
Thus, similar to the copy of the Constitution protection act, which has received Petra Pau (the Icon)
The Federal government had provided the Ministry of the interior (BMI) with a lock-statement – legally, as the Federal administrative court in 2010 ruled. The topic was not finished but still, on the contrary, It came only now really rolling. Also because your party colleague, Bodo Ramelow, the current head of government of Thuringia, pulled up in front of the Federal constitutional court. And the year-long Surveillance by the domestic said the secret service 2013, under reference to article 38 of the basic law to be unconstitutional.
Ramelow triumphed before the Federal constitutional court
Justification: The free mandate of the deputies guarantee the freedom of education “and thus of state interference-free communication relationship between the deputies and the electorate”. Interventions in this high Well would be subject to “strict requirements” of the proportionality. Possible you would be, “if there are indications that the Deputy needs to be a mandate to fight against the free democratic basic order or to actively and aggressively fought”.
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Petra Pau, The Left has been processed””
The Federal office for the protection of the Constitution declared itself willing to delete the about Ramelow and other politicians to the Left of the persons files. Whether this is actually going to happen, don’t know, Petra Pau. With her had been taken in this matter “no contact,” says the 55-Year-old in an interview with Deutsche Welle. Your eternal grace, in the end, the duel with the BfV is also complicated by the fact the defendant authority between the persons and property of the files is different.
In the first category, it goes only to your Person, in the second to the Left as a whole. The party has a rich history behind it. Germ cell, the GDR state party SED, the renamed themselves after the fall of the Berlin wall in party of Democratic socialism (PDS) was. The influence of radical currents in the first years after the German reunification in 1990, is still comparatively strong. Therefore, the protection of the Constitution, interested himself so strongly for the party and many of its members.
The subtle difference between property and personal files
Including the long-standing former party was next to Pau and Ramelow and Group leader Gregor Gysi. All three and many Others, however, has always been the so-called real political wing of the Left, stands firmly on the ground of the Constitution. To take you so heavily targeted, has brought the secret service, there is also a lot of criticism from politicians of other parties. Petra Paus unflattering conclusion in the DW-Interview: “Here, the domestic has been manipulated intelligence for political debate.”
Bodo Ramelow (l) and Gregor Gysi present in 2007, your lawsuit against the observation by the constitutional protection
The impact of years of observation by the constitutional protection was given the long-standing Vice-President of the Bundestag, in conversation with the voters to feel. After her case had become public, had been very unsettled, “whether you can trust your members, or whether the Federal office has access to this data?”. Therefore, Pau is of the essence to delete information from their personal environment. The Rest of the Constitution is to give protection to the Federal archives or the archives of the parties as the “documents of contemporary history”.
Why Pau is against an observation of the AfD
Regardless of the outcome of their own action from Berlin at the end of Pau, in principle, opposed to loyalty to the Constitution of political parties by the secret service, rate. Therefore, it is also against the observation or Monitoring of the Alternative for Germany (AfD). You know, from publicly available sources, and their daily meeting in the Bundestag, that this party is racist and “solid Nazis” in their ranks will not tolerate and act leave. “I don’t need no secret service.”
AfD-politician Björn Höcke (center), aroused the distrust of the constitutional protection, because he makes common cause with the chief of the anti-Islam Pegida movement, Lutz Bachmann (behind Höcke)
The protection of the Constitution sees it differently and has explained the AfD at the beginning of 2019 for the test case. The youth organisation Young Alternative (JA), and as a “nationalist” force “wings” with his front man, Björn Höcke have even been classified as a suspected case. So you need to expect to be in a classic secret service monitored. In particular, this includes the Tapping of their electronic communications, so the phone and the computer belongs to.
The Left is still in the visor of the secret service
But also Petra Pau of the Left is still on the list of the secret service. In the current Constitution protection report of the 2018 seven currents are called, above all, the “Communist platform”. Their leader was even Sahra wagenknecht, the shares for 2015, with Dietmar Bartsch to the group’s presidency in the Bundestag.