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OUTGOING German secret service chief Hans-Georg Maassen will be replaced by his deputy, the Interior Ministry said today.
Thomas Haldenwang has been number two at the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) since 2013. Mr Maassen’s removal was demanded by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition partners, the Social Democrats (SPD), after he sparked outrage by denying video evidence of racist assaults on migrants in Chemnitz in September.
He was also attacked by the Left party for passing sensitive information from BfV reports on extremism to MPs of the far-right Alternative for Germany party before they were published.
As extremist movements grow on the streets and at the ballot box, the emergence of the Together Alliance points to a vital strategy: unity across trade unions, campaigners and communities, says TONY CONWAY
NICK WRIGHT returns to Berlin and finds a city in darkness and political turmoil
Once again Tower Hamlets is being targeted by anti-Islam campaigners, this time a revamped and radicalised version of Ukip — the far-right event is now banned by the police, but we’ll be assembling this Saturday to make sure they stay away, says JAYDEE SEAFORTH
In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare