In the wake of the corona and energy protests, extremists also tried to get their ideas out to the people in 2022. The interior minister sees a new type of people who reject the democratic constitutional state.
Schwerin (dpa/mv) – From the point of view of the interior minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, a new type of extremism has emerged in 2022. Both in the protests in the wake of the corona and energy crises, people appeared who questioned state legitimacy itself without fitting into the classic pattern of extremism, said Christian level (SPD) of the German Press Agency.
The Office for the Protection of the Constitution calls these people “delegitimizers” because they try to deny the legitimacy of state decisions, decision-makers, decision-making processes and democratic decision-making processes. In this area, a readjustment of the definition of enemies of the constitution is currently taking place, soleve.
After the raid on the Reichsbürger network, the question again arises as to how many enemies of the state work in the civil service. With regard to the state police, the Interior Minister refers to the routine regular inquiries to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution for candidates. It is more difficult to find people who have become radicalized in the course of their professional lives.
The investigations into the right-wing extremist prepper network Nordkreuz, as a result of which civil servants in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania were also removed from the civil service, leads level. He hopes that consistent action in the country will also set nationwide disciplinary standards when dealing with right-wing extremists in the civil service. If the courts confirm the decisions, it will be sufficient for disciplinary measures in the future to leave subversive statements made by others in messenger services unchallenged.
