The local youth wing of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the western German state of North Rhine Westphalia has been placed under surveillance as a suspected extremist group. Increasingly radical positions have become dominant within the Junge Alternative (Young Alternative) in recent years, with “extensive cooperation with numerous actors of the right-wing extremist movement of the New Right,” according to North Rhine Westphalia’s interior minister, Herbert Reul. The AfD’s national Junge Alternative group are already under surveillance by Germany’s BfV domestic intelligence agen…