The AfD faction in the German Bundestag wrote that the federal government is planning a significant expansion of the powers of German intelligence services with a revision of the laws governing intelligence services. In the future, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution should be allowed to recruit minors as informants, plant false evidence, secretly break into apartments, and monitor digital communications without prior judicial approval. On the same day, the former president of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Hans-Georg Maaßen, the lawyer Ulrich Vosgerau, and the deputy head of the Interior Working Group, Christian Wirth, discussed the possible impacts of the reform in an interview. #Verfassungsschutz #Nachrichtendienst #Verfassungsschutz #Bundesregierung (translated)











