Germany 'Not Doing Enough' to Fight Right-Wing Extremism

05/20/2009

THE WORLD FROM BERLIN

Germany 'Not Doing Enough' to Fight Right-Wing Extremism

A report released Tuesday showed a 16 percent increase in far-right crimes in Germany in 2008 and a rise in the number of neo-Nazis. German commentators argue that the government is not doing enough to fight right-wing extremism.

Germans have reacted with alarm to the new annual report on politically motivated crimes from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the country's domestic intelligence agency. According to the report, which was presented Tuesday in Berlin, there were 19,894 far-right crimes reported in Germany in 2008 -- an increase of almost 16 percent over the previous year.

The report also concluded that the number of neo-Nazis rose by 400 compared to the previous year to 4,800. However the total number of right-wing extremists in Germany -- a category which includes members of far-right parties and right-wing skinheads as well as neo-Nazis -- dropped slightly from 31,000 in 2007 to 30,000 in 2008.

Heinz Fromm, the agency's head, warned that a scene of 400-500 "right-wing anarchists" has emerged over the last two years, whose members deliberately seeks out violence at demonstrations.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,625972,00.html

How long till someone starts implying this is the Jews Fault?

I'll probably see at least on such screed before breakfast.

Same problems, different times. economic downturn, plus visible "outsider" populations (in this decade, mostly Turks and east Europeans) leads some people to give in to their idiot impulses.

The fault, of course, falls on the idiots with said impulses.

But they'll blame Zionists.

Russia has seen a huge spike in far rightwing groups popping up. According to one show I was watching on the rise of the reich in Russia half the world's skinheads live in Russia.

Austria continues to elect to office right wingers who are little better than the Nazi sympathizers of the 30's

Switzerland has become a focal point of anti-immigration (legal or illegal) -- unless you're white then you're okay (although they use the word European, many have said the US and Canada are ok)

Before we pontificate about German problems, we better look in our own backyard.

really, it's not hard to do both.

in all of the EU, Russia, the US and Israel, most of these groups are targeting whom ever is considered to be the "other" with the global economy declining it will get worse I fear before it gets better

it will be interesting to see what party will win.