Germany's former top neo-Nazi hunter now being monitored as extremist
Last month, Maassen announced he was setting up a party, one of several new launches aiming to capture voters who polls say are increasingly disenchanted with Germany's dominant parties.
The former head of the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz) Hans-Georg Maassen attends the annual European Police Congress in Berlin, Germany, February 4, 2020(photo credit: REUTERS)ByREUTERS