Germany

Strong rise of extreme-right violence

Burning Flüchtlingsheime, rights Schlägerbanden – the number of right-wing extremist crimes is rising steeply. The most violent have a xenophobic Background.

According to preliminary Numbers have the security authorities in Germany in the past year 13.846 criminal offences with extreme right-wing Background were registered. This corresponds to an increase by more than 30 percent compared to 2014.

Left-Members Pau

This is shown in the Figures, the Left politician Petra Pau regularly at the Federal Ministry of the interior polls and the members of Parliament are going to be a year planner for 2015 has summarized. It is, however, merely provisional.

Alarming” Numbers

Pau described the development as alarming. The actual Numbers are likely also much higher: “Experience has shown that doubling the Numbers after the registration of the police authorities of the Federal and state once again,” said the Left politician of the German press Agency.

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“This means that we have daily for three to four far-right motivated crimes.” This shows that the right-wing extremism “has again a danger for the life and body of people is not in the misanthropic pattern of the Nazis fit,” stressed the Deputy.

According to their statistics registered by authorities in the past year, 921 right-wing extremist acts of violence (2014: 496) 691 injured (2014: 431). Most of these acts of violence, a total of 612 were ethnically motivated. So, this number compared to 2014 almost doubled.

wl/gri (dpa)