Overview

• Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla said an extensively reasoned complaint has been submitted to the Bundesverfassungsgericht.
• The move follows a more than three-year legal dispute over the domestic intelligence service’s classification of the AfD as a suspected extremist case.
• In May 2024 the Higher Administrative Court in Münster upheld the Verfassungsschutz’s ‘Verdachtsfall’ designation; the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig recently declined to admit further appeals.
• The ‘Verdachtsfall’ status permits intelligence measures such as recruiting informants (V-Leute) and conducting targeted observation.
• The new filing is separate from the challenge to the May 2025 upgrade to ‘gesichert rechtsextremistische Bestrebung,’ which remains suspended pending judicial review, including proceedings in Cologne.