In 2024, the then internal minister Nancy Faer banned Intensive magazine. He justified the move, saying: “This is a central mouthpiece for the right -wing extremist view. This magazine incites the most disgusting way against Jews, people with ethnic migrant backgrounds and our parliamentary democracy.”
‘Compact’ YouTube channel has many customers
2023 report from the Federal Office for the Protection of Protection of Germany’s Domestic Intelligence Agency, Constitution (BFV) from the Federal Office Intensive -A magazine and multi-media company headquartered in Phalke on the outskirts of Berlin.
According to BFV, Compact The publisher says it sells 40,000 print copies in a month. Number of customers Compact YouTube channels exceed 513,000 by June 10, 2025.
,Intensive It sees ITTSELF as a resistance movement, and it is seen by other actors as part of the scene amidst the so -called new rights, “BFV has written.” System. ,
Relationship with identity
Examples cited by BFV include the principles of abstruse conspiracy used to agitate against the state institute and pluralist society. “Historical revisionist materials and anti -semiteic narrative agenda.” In addition, the report stated that the outfit belongs to the German Identificationist Movement (IBD) and the East German Regional Party “Frei Sessesen,” or the free Saxon, or the free Saxon.
Faeser said that the message was clear – we would not allow anyone to define who does and is not in Germany by their ethnicity. “Our constitutional state protects all those who have attacked the bees of their religion, their origin, their skin color or their desire to live in democracy.”
Nancy Faper wanted to send a signal
The internal minister Feser then overshadowed the original law of Germany to call on the right -wing extremist publication. Article 9 of the Basic Law, which controls the freedom of the assembly, reads: “The objectives or activities of the associations violate criminal laws or who are directed against the concept of constitutional order or international understanding will be banned.”
The editor-in-chief of the compact is a suspected right-wing extremist, who were away and left as a young man. Now in his 60s, Elsar was once a member of the Communist Youth Wing and wrote for the newspaper, Labor struggle (Battle of workers). He later worked as a reporter for other leftist media, including New Germany (New Germany), which was a major news organ for the Socialist Eastern German government when the country calmed down.
Jurgen Elser fighting before the court
Elsseer and other plaintiffs fought their media operations before the federal administrative court in Leapzig. What partly succeeded in August 2024 when it was determined Intensive By the time a final verdict was pronounced. In giving its stay, the court said that the case outs is not clear because it was not yet determined whether Intensive Was worked against the constitutional order.
However, the court immediately found evidence of human dignity violations, in which citizens with migrant background were condemned. Despite this, it is so doubt whether a ban is sufficient to justify. For this, in Article 5 of the original law, guaranteed speech and press will represent the most serious intervention regarding freedom.
Where does the freedom of the press start and end?
Nevertheless, Article 5 put some limitations on the speech, saying, “Thesis rights will get their limits in the General Law Commission, the Commission for the protection of the young person and in their correct respect.”
To define where the press freedoms in Germany start and end, it will begin from June 10. It is not clear when a decision will be given.
This lesson was published in German.
