The police believe 43 right-wing extremists in Germany a strike - ten more than at the beginning of the year. The Federal Criminal Police Office has classified her as a so-called threat. The number is likely to increase further with the planned introduction of a standardized classification procedure for potentially dangerous right-wing extremists.
"Criminal offenses endanger our democracy," warned BKA leader Holger Münch. "The situation is serious." In addition to foreigners and Jews, politicians and other public figures increasingly came under the spotlight of right-wing extremists.
This is shown by the recent attacks: in Halle, a right-wing extremist attempted to invade a synagogue in which Jews had gathered for Yom Kippur about a week ago. When he failed, he shot two people in the street and in a kebab snack. In June, the Kassel government president Walter Lübcke, who was committed to refugees, was killed by a suspected right-wing extremist.
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To counteract right-wing terrorist acts, security agencies want to increase the visibility of right-wing persecutors and extremists on the Internet and limit the activities of known groups. Social networks, gaming platforms and messenger services are being used by right-wing extremists increasingly as a communication space to spread their images of enemies and crimes, said the President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Thomas Haldenwang.
Chief of the Defense sees "virtual globalization of right-wing extremism"
That was also clear in the investigation of the terrible attack in Halle. He said, "We do not expect to discover every single case, but we should do everything we can to better educate the Internet."
The Federal Protection Agency counts a total of 12,700 people violent right-wing extremist scene. The situation is exacerbated by a new dynamic of radicalization on the Internet.
"The virtual globalization of right-wing terrorism and a new type of perpetrator who is both an imitator and an imitator is creating new challenges for security agencies," Haldenwang said, recalling the attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand and El Paso, New Zealand.
"Virtual groups can form situational networks that are much more actionist and more heterogeneous in their composition than has previously been the case in rigid right-wing organizations."
The protection of the constitution and the BKA demand more personnel
The BKA and the constitutional protection therefore presented to the Federal Ministry of the Interior coordinated concepts for realigning the fight against right-wing extremism.
According to this, the protection of the Internet wants to comb the internet more intensively in the future than ever before for references to the radicalization of individual right-wing extremists, groups of the so-called "New Right" - which include the Identitarian Movement - analyze strengthened by arms and tax law measures in cooperation with other authorities Increase pressure on right-wing extremist groups and check further bans.
For this purpose, the domestic intelligence service but also need more staff, the question is of 300 new jobs. The BKA has requested 440 additional posts. Since the budget for this has not yet been budgeted, Parliament has one more say here.
The BKA wants to initiate and attract more investigation in order to expose extreme right-wing structures and to increase the pressure of persecution. Also the authority in Wiesbaden plans an intensified observation of the InterNet. The BKA also promotes the creation of a criminal offense of "outings" in order to make the publication of so-called enemy lists with personal data of political opponents on the Internet more difficult.
The intimidation of political opponents must be stopped, urged BKA chief Munch: "Threats on the Internet and violence create a climate of fear, which also leads to voluntary work is dwindling and offices may not be filled."
