German security services have warned that far-left Antifa extremists have begun infiltrating climate change groups to gain legitimacy and spread their anti-state anarchist ideology.
Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) and other agencies have claimed that there has been evidence of left-wing extremists attempting to radicalize more moderate climate change groups.
One such movement is Fridays for Future, spearheaded by Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg.
Last October, the BfV labeled the group Ende Gelände (End of the Land) as belonging to the far-left extremist scene, with Berlin’s head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Michael Fischer, stating the group was “agitating against our political system in the Federal Republic,” Die Welt reported on Tuesday.
The group is said to advocate for “system change” and the hashtag “System change, not climate change” was supported by Fridays for Future on German social media.
Ende Gelände has been noted for their protests against open-pit lignite (brown coal) mines across Germany including in Hambach in 2018 where a security agency report claims the activists engaged in violence towards police and trespassing in mines.
While some politicians have criticized the security agencies for labeling the group as extremists, the German police union welcomed the move, saying:
“Of course, a distinction is made between peaceful and non-peaceful or violent supporters. Conversely, this also means that the ‘peaceful’ also have to actively distance themselves from the ‘violent’ and separate.”
The report is not the first time far-left extremism has been associated with climate activism.
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Antifa are bunch of Domestic terrorists anyone who supports and/or finances them should go to prison for life and no pardons/Parole or Plea Bargin’s
Ban face coverings. Make it a criminal offense.Mandatory jail.
Well, why am I not surprised. Soros funded I’m guessing. Thankfully they are now exposed for what we have always known them to be….terrorists, the military arm of the Left. More and more with the riots and looting in the US it looks like the Demonrats are their backers, Sickos, one and all.
You can now refer to Antifa as Terrorists instead of Extremists since they are now legally classified as a Terrorist Organization, no different from the violent ISIS.
You had to figure these rotten Antifa scum suckers would be dipping their filthy hands into the Global Warming/Climate Change Movement anything to insure their lust for Power and a World Government run by them and their puppets