The AfD in the Saxon state parliament is demanding clarification regarding the possible cooperation of a suspected Chinese spy with the state's Office for the Protection of the Constitution. "There is a suspicion that this man was deliberately sent to the AfD by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in order to harm our party," explained parliamentary group leader Jörg Urban in Dresden on Monday. Urban demanded information from Saxony's Interior Minister Armin Schuster (CDU), including on the question of whether the Chinese man received money from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution and what information he provided and when.
The Chinese man is an employee of AfD leader Maximilian Krah. The employee had been arrested for suspected espionage for China. The "Bild" newspaper had reported in the previous week that the man had been an informant for the Saxon Office for the Protection of the Constitution for some time. Like AfD politician Petr Bystron, Krah - his party's lead candidate for the European elections - had made the headlines due to possible links to pro-Russian networks. The newspaper "Süddeutsche" also wrote that Krah was being targeted by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution due to dubious connections to China.
