Left-Extremist Endeavours

Legal proceedings By decision of 21 and of 24 September, the Bavarian Higher Administrative
Court denied the motions submitted by the REP Bavarian
Land Association for leave to appeal against the decision
of the Munich Administrative Court of 25 March, and declared
that references to the REP, as contained in the Bavarian Reports
on the Protection of the Constitution for the years 1994 through
1997 and in the report "Verfassungsschutz-Informationen
Bayern, 1. Halbjahr 1998" ["Information on the Protection of the
Constitution - Bavaria, 1 st Semester of 1998"], were in conformity with
the law.
By decision of 10 September, the Coblenz Higher Administrative
Court confirmed the admissibility of the surveillance of the REP
Land Association of Rhineland-Palatinate by means of intelligence
methods.
By decision of 26 June 1997, the Lüneburg Higher Administrative
Court had declared that surveillance of the REP Land
Association of Lower Saxony by means of certain intelligence
methods (collection of information by undercover agents, and
covert investigations and questioning) was admissible. By
judgement of 7 December, the Federal Administrative Court
(BVerwG) confirmed that the facts established by the Higher
Administrative Court sufficed for warranting the suspicion that the
REP engaged in anti-constitutional endeavours since they used
patterns of argumentation typical of right-extremist antidemocratic
associations and constantly launched generalizing
and polemic attacks against the institutions and representatives
of democracy. The lawsuit was returned to the Higher
Administrative Court for clarification of the question as to
whether, and to what extent, use of intelligence methods against
the REP conformed to the principle of proportionality.
In addition, there are pending suits filed by the REP against their
surveillance by means of intelligence methods in North
Rhine/Westphalia, Berlin and Baden-Wurttemberg.
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