Germany's domestic intelligence agency has put the opposition Alternative for Germany party under observation under suspicion of extreme right sympathies, several media outlets reported Wednesday.
The move by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, known by the initials BfV, comes more than two years after it announced it was examining public comments by party members and links to extremist groups more closely.
In January 2019, the agency put the the youth wing of the party, known as AfD, as well as a party faction linked to a prominent leader in eastern Germany, Bjoern Hoecke, under covert surveillance over extremism allegations.