BERLIN — Once he was Germany’s top Nazi hunter. Now the conservative opposition want to kick former domestic security chief Hans\u002DGeorg Maassen out of their…
Until 2018, Maassen headed the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, chasing down extremist threats to Germany’s constitutional order, whether from foreign spies, religious fundamentalists, the far right or the far left.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“He keeps using language from the world of anti-Semites and conspiracy theorists, even ethnic supremacist terminology,” the CDU presidency said in a statement on Monday, giving him a deadline of Sunday to leave the party or face expulsion. The decision to eject Maassen four years after he first became notorious highlights the dilemma facing the CDU, which has a slim lead in polls over Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats and the Greens, but which risks shedding voters to the far-right opposition Alternative for Germany.
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