The Federal office for the protection of the Constitution warns against the instrumentalization of the Corona-crisis by the extreme Right. “The Coronavirus found in the right-wing extremist scene, a great deal of attention,” said the President of the Federal office for the protection of the Constitution, Thomas Haldenwang, the weekly newspaper “die Zeit”. He pointed to disinformation campaigns and the dissemination of conspiracy theories. dpa/Gregor Fischer/dpa “Since its emergence in Germany, we observe the right-wing extremist Association “Combat 18″,” says Thomas Haldenwang.

The pandemic will be taken to the occasion, “to spread the faith in the Federal government to undermine conspiracy theories and migrants as Vectors of the Virus brand,” said Haldenwang. “At the same time be designed doomsday scenarios to generate acceptance of radical and extremist positions.” Haldenwang, emphasized the protection of the Constitution authorities of such activities but on the look-out.

Also in the Federal Ministry of the interior, the various Attempts of disinformation campaigns are currently the subject of, it was more in the “time”. In addition to rich citizens, neo-Nazis, or the Identitarian movement, also tried foreign governments in this way, the social cohesion in Germany and in the European Union to attack. For more information, it was not this, however.

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