The Federal government speaks of 83 victims of extreme-right violence since reunification. Searches of the “Tagesspiegel” and “Zeit Online” come to 169. The Ministry of the interior sees no need for action.
On the day exactly five years after the mass murder of the Norwegian Right-wing Anders Breivik was David S. his Plan into action: He killed in the Munich Olympia shopping Mall nine people with a migration background. In his statement, he called his victims “cockroaches”. Opinion left little doubt as to his extreme right-wing Tatmotiven. In the official statistics of the Victims of extreme-right violence, the nine victims of David S. not to dive anyway: After the knowledge of the Federal government, a policeman, was shot dead in Swiss francs from a rich citizen was killed in Germany in 2016, only a man of extreme right-wing motives:.
At least 169 instead of 83 deaths
Overall, the Federal government is one of 83 victims of right-wing violence since reunification in 1990. Long-term research of the “Tagesspiegel” and “Zeit Online” revealed that there are at least twice as many journalists came to 169 cases, in which, according to their information, the political Motivation of the offender can be considered safe. In addition, 61 fatalities of the Research, according to extreme right-wing motives are considered to be likely.
At a Demonstration in Munich portraits will be shown of the victims of the NSU terror group
How can it be that the Numbers in media and policy differ so greatly from each other? A spokesman for the Federal interior Ministry informed on request of the German wave that in these Reports of the police evaluation, different conclusions are not-could not, “since the valuation is subject to the public Bodies the legal framework of the statutory tasks and powers of the security authorities derive.”
Needs to be expanded, the official statistics?
Previous research had led to the reports of the two media in the past, security agencies revised in more than 30 cases, your initial assessment, and the cases subsequently in the statistics. Whether it comes this time, is unclear. According to the Ministry of the interior, the Federal government is probably not currently known, whether as a response to the reports, the statistics should now be supplemented.
This Review is basically for the land police forces, the Bundeskriminalamt, if you rate a certain Crime as politically motivated. Therefore, the nine Munich victims do not appear, for example, in the statistics of politically motivated crimes, to the Bavarian LKA nachmeldet the case accordingly. This mechanism is regulated in the so-called Criminal intelligence service (have BEEN PMK) between the Federal government and the länder. Whether this service still fulfils its purpose, will be regularly reviewed, informed the spokesman of the interior Ministry: “In this context, possible approaches to the modification and further development will be discussed and possibly implemented.” If his Ministry in view of the large discrepancy between the official and the Figures reported a specific need for action, he left unanswered.
In Saxony-Anhalt, Brandenburg and Berlin, there were major revisions after 2011 was flew the terrorist group NSU: a systematic Review, you reported a total of 18 acts of 19 dead as a right-motivated homicides.
Cases all over the country, especially in the East
The use of deadly force with the right Background, there are in the whole Federal territory: On the map in “time Online” are the most points (26) in Brandenburg – the second-most victims of extreme-right violence are recorded in the much more populated States of North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria (24). Also in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, count with 16 and 14 cases, many death victims of right-wing violence.