A Munich court is to hear a case on Tuesday regarding a challenge by the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party against the Bavarian intelligence services’ decision to monitor AfD activities for extremism. In Bavaria, the intelligence service – known in Germany as the Office for the Protection of the Constitution – took the decision in June 2022 to monitor the AfD as a whole, using both public and intelligence sources. In summary proceedings, the Bavarian court initially dismissed the AfD’s complaint on the grounds that the intelligence service was right to assume there were indica…