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Michael Newrzella in a subsequent exchange of fire; Grams committed suicide. The Rhineland-Palatinate Interior Minister Walter Zuber intended to continue using the undercover agent Steinmetz, which is why his presence at the place of the raid was kept secret from the public until he was unmasked three weeks later, although the media reported on the following day that a third person was present as an undercover agent without naming him. This attempt at secrecy was a major reason for the subsequent political scandal surrounding the failed operation in Bad Kleinen, which was described as a state crisis. The journalist Andreas Förster sees the failure of the constitutional protection authorities in particular in this case as a root of the later right-wing extremist terror of the
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Bloc. At the same time, however, combating right-wing extremism was also a central task from the start. Its findings have contributed to the banning of right-wing extremist groups several times since the 1960s, for example of two so-called military sports groups in the
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America, Islamism became another focus of monitoring. New challenges facing the Rhineland-Palatinate Office for the Protection of the Constitution include the shift of anti-constitutional activities across the entire extremist spectrum to the Internet, the blurring of
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Parliamentary Control Commission (PKK). G10 measures generally require the prior approval of the so-called G10 Commission, an independent body of its own kind. The State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information also has further control rights.
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