"At the BKA conference, she was discussing democracy in Germany. "At dinners with perfectly ordinary colleagues and friends who love their country, I often hear them say after the second glass of wine, that they're considering whether they should leave the country," Buyx said. "Should leave," meaning they don't want to. Buyx didn't name the particular threat. But every police officer in the room knows who she's talking about: the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party."
"The AfD has been on the rise for years. In eastern Germany, it has become the strongest force. The party is also becoming increasingly openly extremist. AfD officials use Nazi slogans, pose with their hands on their hearts in front of Adolf Hitler's bunker, wear clothing from the mail-order catalog of Germany's largest neo-Nazi organization, and call themselves the "friendly face of National Socialism." These are not mere accusations these incidents are self-publicized."
A gray November day in Wiesbaden gathered hundreds of police at the Federal Criminal Police Office fall conference to consider domestic security threats such as drone attacks, hybrid warfare and digital disinformation. Alena Buyx, a medical ethicist and former president of the German Ethics Council, warned about threats to democracy and described citizens contemplating leaving Germany because of rising extremism. Buyx linked that threat to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). The AfD's electoral gains, especially in eastern Germany, have coincided with increasingly explicit extremist behavior, including Nazi slogans, poses at Hitler's bunker, neo‑Nazi clothing, and self-publicized incidents that oppose constitutional non-discrimination principles.
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