German intelligence agencies are to continue investigating the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) until after February’s elections, sources told dpa on Wednesday. The party – which is currently second in the polls – has been classified by security services as a suspected right-wing extremist group, allowing officers to continue monitoring its activities including through the use of surveillance and informants. Thomas Haldenwang, president of the domestic intelligence agency known as the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), said in October that the body would reach …