The former head of Germany's domestic intelligence service, Hans-Georg Maassen, is taking legal action against the agency he once led, BTA reported.
A lawsuit was filed against the agency, officially known as the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, at the Administrative Court in Cologne last night, Maassen explained. So far, the court has not confirmed the receipt of the appeal.
At the end of January, it became known that the agency had stored in its information system data about its former chairman in connection with right-wing extremism.
Maassen accuses Interior Secretary Nancy Fesser of using the domestic intelligence service "to monitor opponents of the government," he said. "Opponents of the government are not enemies of the constitution. In this way, she is seriously violating her official duties and harming liberal democracy," Maasen emphasized, adding that this is what prompted him to file the complaint.
Fezer is "intolerable" as interior minister and should be "immediately removed from office", he added.
According to Maassen, the complaint consists of 40 pages and 165 pages of annexes, excerpts of which DPA received. It is clear from it that Maasen objects to the fact "that he has been categorized by the defendant as a subject of surveillance or is currently being treated as such".