change color State In Germany, but not the authorities’ opinion on what the main threat to the constitutional order and Germany is. internal stability from the country. “The greatest extremist threat to our democracy is far right extremistFederal Interior Minister, Social Democrat Nancy Faeser, said Tuesday at the presentation of the annual report by the Federal Office for the Defense of the Constitution (BfV in German abbreviation). His message is the same one launched last year by Social Christian Horst Seehofer, Minister of the Interior in Angela Merkel’s last government.
Faeser’s argument is the same as that of those who have warned for decades that far-right terrorism in Germany has been a constant threat: ideological spectrum where is the greater willingness using violence against political enemies, minorities or the State itself and its representatives – deputies, mayors, police, etc.
The statistics of the current report confirm that: total 33,476 crimes with an ideological background More than 20,357 of the BfV registered during 2021 were classified as far-right, 6,142 far-left, 409 religiously motivated – Salafism or radical Islam as the main threats – and 776 foreign ideologies, among them service secrets or third-country intelligence. . The rest of the registered ideological crimes could not be classified into any ideology.
war and epidemic
BfV guesses there About 33,900 people, of whom 13,500 are violent, are ideologically attributed to the far-right spectrum. Authorities insist that the strategy of these sectors is to gain support among non-radicalized segments of the population. To do this, they use events colloquially known as the “refugee crisis,” such as the arrival of hundreds of thousands of migrants in 2015 or the catastrophic flooding in West Germany last summer. The current rise in prices may be the new scenario used by the extra-parliamentary far right to capitalize on social discontent.
In addition to the restrictions on public life over the past two years, the climate of tension created by the war in Ukraine in certain parts of Germany seems to have accelerated a phenomenon already observed in previous reports: sought-after’.lone wolves‘ – attackers with no known support structure – over the Internet. Two of the last two far-right attacks recorded in Germany – against a synagogue in Halle and against citizens with a migrant background in Hanau – were apparently carried out by ‘lone wolves’.
siege ideology
Word ‘siege‘ – fence or site in English – is featured in the latest BfV report. “The so-called scene siege is playing an increasingly important role. on the basis of a racist and antisemitic ideologyIt spreads the overthrow of the system through leaderless resistance and promotes terrorist attacks against minorities and representatives of the system”, BfV chief Thomas Haldenwang announced on Tuesday.
This movement, which emerged in the USA and is associated with the theory of ‘accelerationism’ – accelerating the contradictions of the capitalist system and ultimately sinking it, is especially active in the digital world and this is one of its most important features in the young population. main targets, says Haldenwang.