A Munich court began hearing 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 summary proceedings, the Bavarian court initially dismissed the AfD’s complaint on the grounds that the intelligence service was right to assume there were indications of anti-constitutional activity on part of the party. After requests for a temporary injunction were twice rejected, the main hearing in the first instance is now taking place in a Munich court. The Munich co…