9/13 Even before Thursday's revelation, opposition parties had called on Maassen to resign over suspicions that he harbors right-wing sympathies and has a too-close relationship with the AfD. But until now he has been backed by his boss, conservative Interior Minister Horst Seehofer.”
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Angry Beastさんのツイート: "#Maaßen, the Chief of the German domestic secret service #BfV is in 3 cases under pressure: 1. he met with leaders of the racist far-right #AfD (Petry, #Gauland) in order to protect the party from supervision of his own secret service
Alexander Clarksonさんのツイート: "Keep in mind this is not the first time LfVs have gone on the warpath against the BfV or vice versa. Throughout the Cold War and during various fiascos involving surveillance of the radical Right in the 90s and 00s clashes were
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