- Hans-Georg Maassen, the previous head of Germany’s home intelligence company, is dealing with scrutiny by the company he as soon as led.
- Maassen posted a letter from the company on his web site after experiences surfaced that he’s now underneath scrutiny for right-wing extremism.
- He’s now working to remodel the conservative group he leads into a brand new political get together.
Germany’s home intelligence company has put its former head, who has develop into a hard-right politician since being faraway from the job a number of years in the past, underneath scrutiny.
Hans-Georg Maassen posted a letter from the BfV company to his lawyer on his web site Wednesday after public broadcaster ARD and media outlet t-online reported that the authority he led from 2012 to 2018 now has him in its recordsdata on right-wing extremism.
The letter, dated Jan. 16, listed info that the BfV has him in its recordsdata. The company refused to touch upon the report and the letter, saying that it would not touch upon people due to their rights, German information company dpa reported.
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Maassen was eliminated as the pinnacle of the BfV in 2018 after showing to downplay far-right violence towards migrants within the jap metropolis of Chemnitz. He turned a vocal if marginal determine on the laborious proper of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, the get together as soon as led by former Chancellor Angela Merkel, and ran unsuccessfully for election to the nationwide parliament in 2021.
Hans-Georg Massen is seen in Berlin, Germany, on Nov. 21, 2017. Germany’s home intelligence company is criticizing Massen, the company’s former head, for alleged ties to extremism. (Michael Kappeler/image alliance by way of Getty Photos)
CDU leaders final yr launched an effort to expel Maassen, following a tweet wherein he mentioned that the course of “the driving forces within the political and media sphere” was “eliminatory racism towards whites and the burning want for Germany to kick the bucket.”
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In latest weeks, Maassen has set in movement plans to show an arch-conservative group he leads, the WerteUnion, into a brand new political get together. On Saturday, he tweeted a letter saying that he was leaving the CDU, at the moment Germany’s important opposition get together, which he asserted is now “a variant of the socialist events and never a substitute for them.”
On Wednesday, Maassen wrote on X, previously referred to as Twitter, that the federal government “is clearly afraid” of him and his potential new get together, and mentioned the letter despatched to his lawyer “comprises no substantiated proof that justifies commentary.”
