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France 24
France 24
Politics
Benjamin DODMAN

‘Russian sleeper cell’: Can Germany’s far-right AfD be barred from sensitive intel?

Police officers stand outside the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament building in Magdeburg.
Police stationed outside the state parliament in Saxony-Anhalt, where Germany's AfD became the first far-right party to win a state election since 1945. © Annegret Hilse, Reuters

The prospect of an AfD-led government in Germany’s Saxony-Anhalt has exacerbated long-standing fears that the far-right Russia-friendly party may gain access to sensitive information of interest to the Kremlin, fuelling debate as to whether and how it can be barred from classified intelligence.

What happens when Germany’s domestic intelligence service is monitored by the very people it is meant to spy on?

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