Berlin’s domestic intelligence agency (“Verfassungsschutz Berlin”) is watching one of the few organizations from the German peace movement that has been opposing Russia’s criminal war of aggression since the beginning of the Russian invasion. This is evidenced by the secret service’s annual report (“Verfassungsschutzbericht”), which was published on June 27. In the report, the secret service takes issue with two imaginative and striking protest actions against Gazprom and the Russian Embassy, organized by Antimilitarist Action Berlin (amab) in 2022. “We joked that the Russian secret services would certainly take interest in our actions,” says Jan Hansen, spokesperson for Antimilitarist Action Berlin (amab): “But it’s a scandal that the Berlin secret service is watching us because of protests against the Russian war of aggression and its profiteers!”
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