In 2022, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution classified Jürgen Elsässer’s magazine “Compact” as right-wing extremist. Now the Interior Ministry has banned the magazine.
The Federal Ministry of the Interior headed by Nancy Faeser (SPD) has banned the right-wing extremist “Compact” magazine and Conspect Film GmbH. According to the ministry, police officers have been searching the organization’s premises and the homes of leading figures, management and shareholders in Brandenburg, Hesse, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt since the early hours of the morning. Reporters observed on Tuesday morning how police officers entered a house in Falkensee, the address of which is listed in the magazine’s imprint.
As early as 2022, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution ruled that the magazine, headed by editor-in-chief Jürgen Elsässer, “as a multimedia company, brings anti-democratic and anti-human dignity positions into society.” The intelligence service has classified the magazine as right-wing extremist.
In the statement from the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Faeser describes “Compact” as “a central mouthpiece of the right-wing extremist scene”. The magazine incites “in an unspeakable manner against Jews, against people with a migration background and against our parliamentary democracy”. The ban is a “hard blow against the right-wing extremist scene”.
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