Beatings, Arson Attacks, Murders. Since 1990, extreme-right acts of violence in Germany. Up to 169 people have been killed since then by the brown Terror. Important cases at a Glance.
“Politically motivated crime – right”. The security authorities in Germany crimes committed by the extreme Right because of their attitude. In particular, violence against foreigners, Jews, Muslims, political opponents or representatives of the state counts.1.156 such violence, the state registered in the year 2018.
Since the reunification in 1990, the victims are recorded of extreme-right violence in Germany. The authorities counted since 85 deaths. Journalists come to mind on a minimum of 169 right-wing extremist motivated killings. They accuse the authorities, in many cases incorrectly classified as not political violence to be classified, but, for example, as a private revenge.
Murder at the Kassel government President Walter Lübcke
Walter Lübcke, of the 2. June 2019 in front of his house near Kassel was shot, it could be another case, in the statistics of right-wing violence shows up. The suspect, Stephan, E., the police have noticed since the end of the 1980s by right-wing extremist crimes. It is still not clear what are the motives of the alleged perpetrator was, and whether he was supported by like-minded people. Lübcke could become the attack target, because he had used for the accommodation of refugees.
Attacks on refugee accommodation in 2015 and 2016
This was become after the increase of numbers of Refugees in the autumn of 2015 to the topic of debate in Germany. At the same time the rights of crime increased against refugees. For example, the politically motivated attacks on refugee attained accommodations 2015 and 2016einen climax. 995 of such offences, the authorities 2016 registered.
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The extreme right in Germany
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Right-wing extremists in Germany
First of all, as a “citizens ‘ militia” established, committed the “group Freital” in the year 2015Sprengstoffanschläge on refugees and their supporters. Eight of the accused were spoken for 2018 due to the formation of a terrorist group is guilty.
In the case of the “old Society” could the authorities planned bomb attacks to prevent. In may 2015, members of the Nazi terrorist organization were taken in five German cities.
Knife attacks on politicians in 2015 and 2017
In the case of the attacks on politicians in 2015 and 2017, it was, however, a list of individual perpetrators who were not involved in extreme right-wing terrorist networks.
In October of 2015 slammed a right-wing extremist of the party candidate for the Lord mayor of Cologne of choice, Henriette Reker, a knife in the neck. The offender called Rekers refugee policy as the reason for his murder attempt. Reker barely survived, and was elected the next day to the mayor of the city of Cologne.
The man who wanted to kill Henriette Reker, 2016 on the dock
“You let me die of thirst, but get 200 foreigners in the city”. With these words, and the threat of strike, held in November 2017, a 56-Year-old to the mayor of Altena in the Sauerland , Andreas Hollstein (CDU), a knife in a Snack bar to the neck. The snack bar operator, a handle, Hollstein was injured, therefore, only slightly.
Franco A.: As a fugitive, disguised
Bizarre and twisted acts in the case of the German soldiers Franco A. He was arrested in April 2017, because the investigators assumed that he was planning a right-wing terrorist attack, he wanted to push the Syrian refugees in the shoes. Had to be Franco A., as a war refugee to register in Germany applied for asylum.
Glorification of Nazism: A mural in the barracks by Franco A. shows a soldier of the Wehrmacht
The Frankfurt higher regional court, however, could not find sufficient evidence for the “preparing a serious seditious act of violence”. The Federal Prosecutor has lodged an appeal. Franco A. led a list of potential Victims, it also the SPD-politician and current foreign Minister, Heiko Maas. The case, Franco A. triggered in Germany, the debate over whether the Bundeswehr is a Problem with right to extremely-Minded in their ranks.
Series of murders of the NSU
The terrorist organization “national socialist underground” (NSU) could have a total of 13 years and remain undetected. Its members, known to Police, neo-Nazis Uwe Böhnhardt and Uwe Mundlos, committed bomb attacks and shot between 2000 and 2007, nine migrants and a policewoman. As the group threatened to lie after a Bank robbery in November 2011, to be included, took Böhnhardt and Mundlos life. Beate Zschäpe, the third member of the group, was sentenced in July 2018 as had told her, and Mitplanerin of the murders to life imprisonment.
After the Blow of the NSU has been discussed in Germany whether the authorities and the media have underestimated the danger of right-wing terror for too long. The police investigated for years, especially in the family environment of victims of the NSU. The media wrote of the “Döner murders” because two of the victims worked in a Turkish snack stall.
Arson attacks and Assaults in the early 1990s
At the beginning of the 1990s, neo-Nazis stuck multiple residences of asylum seekers, as well as residences of foreigners in a fire. At this time, it was an intense discussion in Germany on the right of asylum, the extreme right-wing violence reached a new peak. When there is violence were asylum seekers and other foreigners injured, such as in the pogroms in Rostock-Lichtenhagen in 1992.
In Mölln, two tens and four died in the same year, ten – year-old girl and her grandmother, after neo-Nazis had thrown Molotov cocktails at your house. In the case of the most serious arson attack died in may 1993 in Solingen , five women and girls with a Turkish migration history.
Here are three people in the fire died in the attack in Mölln in 1992
From 1990 to 1993, a total of 58 people to be extreme right-wing violence have been killed. The Angolans Amadeu Antonio Kiowa is considered to be one of the first deaths since German reunification. A group of neo-Nazis Kiowa had on 24. November hit in 1990 of the brutal and jumped to the ground, with both feet on the head.
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Memory of Solingen in 1993
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