Prominent AfD politicians from Saxony-Anhalt have lost their weapons law permission. The reason is the observation by the protection of the constitution. He attributes a “combative-aggressive attitude” to the state association.
As a weapon authority, the Magdeburg police inspection has withdrawn several prominent AfD politicians from Saxony-Anhalt. According to information from T-Online, this includes the member of the state parliament Christian Mertens, who ran twice for the office of state vice president and heads the young alternative in the country, as well as the former state manager Matthias Kleiser, who is now heading an AfD member of the member of the European Parliament. The former AfD member of the Bundestag Frank Pasemann, who was excluded from the party in 2020, is also affected.
The reason for the withdrawal of the permits is the now courted weapon law unreliability. According to the 1st Chamber of the Court*, the basis for this forms the classification of the state party as secure right -wing extremist endeavor by the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution. A lawsuit by Mertens, Kleiser and Pasemann against the official measure failed on Tuesday before the Magdeburg Administrative Court, as the court announced on Thursday afternoon at the request of T-online.
In the judgment, the administrative court at the Saxony-Anhalt State Association “states a combative-aggressive attitude towards the elementary principles of the constitution”.
This becomes clear from the overall show of the documents of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution to classify the party as secure right -wing extremist endeavor. Accordingly, the AfD Saxony-Anhalt continuously undermines the human dignity and its core content in the Basic Law. In addition, she continues to make the principle of democracy stipulated in the Basic Law.
A distancing of statements by other AfD members “who shaped the appearance of the AfD Saxony-Anhalt” was “neither presented nor otherwise recognizable” by the plaintiffs. In order to prove the weapons law reliability, it is not enough to have become not conspicuous or not to be recorded under weapons law or not to be recorded “that were directed against the constitutional order”.
To demonstrate an aggressive-fighting attitude at the federal level would be essential for a party ban procedure. In the NPD ban proceedings, too, the authorities tried to provide small-scale evidence. With regard to a possible AfD ban, however, the judgment has no signal effect, as two right-wing experts T-Online announced. The judgment is not yet final. Mertens, Kleiser and Pasemann can appeal within a month.
At the beginning of the year, the State Ministry of the Interior stated that 330 pistols and rifles were owned by 74 members in Saxony-Anhalt. Your weapons law permits should be checked.
*We accidentally wrote “Chamber Court” at this point.
