The protection of the Constitution: Right-wing violence is on the rise

The protection of the Constitution registered 2018, more extreme right-wing violence. A newspaper report that the number of violent crimes increased from 28 to 48, including six attempted homicide offences with a xenophobic Background.

The security authorities have registered last year, an increase of right-wing violence in Germany. 24.100 people were classified in the past year, as the extreme right, such as the "Bild am Sonntag", citing the annual report in 2018, the Federal office for the protection of the Constitution (BfV) reported to be introduced on Thursday.

In 2017 24,000. Almost every second extreme is classified by the protection of the Constitution as a "violence-oriented". In the case of the left-wing extremists there are around 9000. To belong to the enemy images of the right-wing extremists, in particular, asylum-seekers and Muslims, but also politicians, according to the report. In terms of content, the themes of "Alienation" and an alleged, according kartal escort to the report of the loss of "national identity threat" in the focus.

Six homicides

2018 tried, there were six attempted homicides, which are classified as a suspected right-wing extremist. All of them had to write a xenophobic Background, such as "BamS", referring to the protection of the Constitution report. The number of extreme-right acts of violence, therefore, rose to 48, after 28 in the year 2017.

anti-Semitism continues to be extremists is an ideological identification feature of the law. The annual report shows that there is a "rise of incitement with anti-Semitic motives".

number of the "rich citizen" takes to

Worry the security authorities, according to "BamS", the so-called Reich citizenship and self-managers. "Rich citizens" reject Federal Republic of Germany and are for the continued existence of the "German Empire". The "self-managers" explicitly declare their "exit" from the Federal Republic of Germany. The protection of the Constitution classifies both groups as "hostile to the state".

nationally, the number of rich citizens and even user age: 2017 were registered for both groups, a total of 16,500 members, to 2018, the number had increased to 19,000 persons, of which 950 as the extreme right are classified.

Kingdom citizens, and even administrators are waffenaffin. 910 possessed 2018 weapons licences or weapons possession cards. They fell also by the numerous offences to: insult, threat, forgery, resisting law enforcement officers, and illegal possession of weapons. The analysis of the Constitution, protectors of the paper said: "The sustained high level of verbal Aggression, as well as the inherent hazard potential require in the future intensive observation."

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