Germany banned the right-wing Compact magazine on Tuesday, accusing it of being a “mouthpiece of the right-wing extremist scene” and inciting hatred of Jews and foreigners.

Stepping up the government’s fight against what it says is a surge in far-right extremism in Germany, the interior ministry said Compact had been working against the constitutional order and ordered property searches in four states.

Compact magazine, widely seen as a mouthpiece of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party’s radical wing, has a circulation of 40,000 and a wide-reaching social media presence. The ban also applies to Compact’s subsidiary, Conspect Film, and prohibits any continuation of previous activities.

Searches of the magazine’s office as well as the homes of its top figures, management and leading shareholders in Brandenburg, Hesse, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt were aimed at seizing assets and other evidence, the ministry said.

“This magazine incites hatred against Jews, people with a history of migration and our parliamentary democracy in an unspeakable manner,” Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said.

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