Her regime is really pushing the "far-right threat", and this is being used to seek justification to spy on her political rivals, specifically the nationalist AfD. AfD is growing steadily and taking votes from Merkel's so-called center-right CDU party. I think she and her cronies are just spying on AfD people to get dirt on whomever they can in order to threaten them into not running for office, or to hurt them publicly if they do.
Sound familiar? 0bama and his successful efforts with secret FISA courts to spy on Trump and his inner circle during and after an election for no clear reason, spread unfounded rumors of piss parties just to hurt their rivals (no evidence, but the media didn't care about that).
Meanwhile: "German authorities conduct raids on far-right group". This is what Merkel wanted.
Her regime is really pushing the "far-right threat", and this is being used to seek justification to spy on her political rivals, specifically the nationalist AfD. AfD is growing steadily and taking votes from Merkel's so-called center-right CDU party. I think she and her cronies are just spying on AfD people to get dirt on whomever they can in order to threaten them into not running for office, or to hurt them publicly if they do.
Sound familiar? 0bama and his successful efforts with secret FISA courts to spy on Trump and his inner circle during and after an election for no clear reason, spread unfounded rumors of piss parties just to hurt their rivals (no evidence, but the media didn't care about that).