A group of boys and girls aged 15 to 16, most of them with immigrant backgrounds and many of the girls wearing headscarves, are forced to leave at dawn from a holiday colony on the banks of the Heidensee, a lake in the mountains. in the suburbs of Berlin under police protection. First they took abuse a group of local and alcoholic youth. between racism Verbal bullying has become physical, knocking on windows where visitors try to sleep. The police were called at midnight, and then the parents of the abused group who drove them home at around three o’clock in the morning on Sunday.
The story of one of the situations that could occur at any point in the “land” Brandenburg that surrounds Berlin, dotted with beautiful lakes and holiday colonies. The case swept through the media this week amid sentences and statements of silliness. For a group of teenagers from the capital, the attack was frightened and they returned home. For attackers, they may have a ‘medal’ to show to their fellow colleagues.
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They suffer every day attacks between extreme right five people in Germanybased on figures for 2022 presented in Berlin this Tuesday. This, the territory of the extinct communist Germany. This is also a record number. copy in the case of attacks on minors -520 victims, compared to 288 in 2021. In addition to physical attacks, coercion, insults or threats for racist or anti-Semitic reasons tripled.
“The far right represents the greatest threat to Germany’s security,” said Holger Münch, head of the Federal Criminal Police Department, presenting the political crime statistics with Interior Minister Nancy Faeser. total politically motivated crimes increased to 60,000 in 2022, highest level since these records began. By crimes with a political background, we mean left-wing radicalism or heterogeneous movements that started with protests. anti-vaccine. 41% of the total number corresponds to the extreme right, 31% of the radical left. However, the far right is reaching record numbers in the electoral potential seen in the eastern half of the country.
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Polls now available Alternative for Germany (AfD)The only far-right formation to hold seats in the Bundestag (Federal Parliament) as the first force in their intention to vote in all eastern states except Berlin alone. The first survey showing this address in the tabloid newspaper ‘Bild’ was followed by similar sampling in other media. This newspaper may be considered an “interested party”. The racism that often spreads across its covers is not much different from the AfD’s xenophobic rhetoric, combined with Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s overt hostility to the trio of Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals.
The AfD’s upward trend is not exclusive to the east, which has little weight across the country for demographic purposes. Successive polls by the two national public channels, ARD and ZDF, show this party third position, general elections must be held now. The first position is occupied by the opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU)She abandoned her centrism under the leadership of Angela Merkel and turned to the right. Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) took second place, behind the AfD. Greenin free fall and liberals.