German Interior Minister bans AfD-adjacent "right-wing extremist" magazine, raids homes of editorial staff, seizes assets, in the latest effort defend democracy by abolishing our democratic freedoms
eugyppius Jul 16
Compact editor-in-chief Jörgen Elsässer opens his door to masked special operations police this morning, following the Interior Ministry ban on his publication.
Compact was a German magazine founded in 2010 by the former leftist Jürgen Elsässer. With a circulation of 40,000, it was a vocal supporter of the nationalist wing of Alternative für Deutschland. In December 2021, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution declared Compact to be a “confirmed right-wing extremist” publication, and today Nancy Faeser, the Federal Minister of the Interior, banned it outright. Early this morning, police raided Compact editorial offices and also the homes of Elsässer, his employees and shareholders.
Within hours of the raids, Faeser offered this statement:
Today I have banned the right-wing extremist Compact magazine. It is a central mouthpiece of the right-wing extremist scene. This magazine incites unspeakable hatred against Jews, against people with a history of migration and against our parliamentary democracy.
Our ban is a hard blow against the right-wing extremist scene. The ban shows that we are also taking action against the spiritual arsonists who are fuelling a climate of hatred and violence towards refugees and migrants and want to overcome our democratic state. Our signal is very clear: we will not allow ethnicity to define who belongs to Germany and who does not. Our constitutional state protects all those who are treated with hostility because of their faith, their origin, the colour of their skin or their democratic stance.
I would like to thank the security authorities at federal and state level for their closely coordinated and consistent measures. I would particularly like to thank the forces who have been searching various properties since the early hours of the morning
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