Photo Gallery 'I Am Very Skeptical'
In a SPIEGEL interview, German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich talks about the failures of Germany's intelligence agencies in relation to the neo-Nazi terror cell, a possible attempt to ban the far-right NPD party and attempts by German right-wingers to provoke Muslims by showing "Innocence of Muslims."
A demonstration by the right-wing group Pro Deutschland in front of a mosque in Berlin on Aug. 18. "Such groups and organizations want to provoke the Islamists, also in Germany," Friedrich said, referring to Pro Deutschland putting the trailer for "Innocence of Muslims" on its website. "By doing so, they are recklessly pouring oil on the fire."
"I don't mistrust the staff of Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution," Friedrich said. "But it is also clear to me that we need to change structures and procedures at the BfV." Here, Sebastian Edathy, the head of the Bundestag investigative committee on the NSU, looks at files provided by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
In the interview, Friedrich talked about a possible attempt to ban the far-right NPD party. "I am not saying that I am ruling out an attempt to ban the party," he said. "But I admit that I am very skeptical."
