Violent German preppers have gathered in an as yet unknown online forum to arm themselves for the alleged apocalypse and for a "civil war" against migrants and Muslims.
According to SPIEGEL information, the group connects with more than 3,500 registered users via the Russian social network VK and describes itself as a "survival group".
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In addition to emergency preparedness lists, the forum offers numerous tips on obtaining weapons, both legally and illegally. Some go into killing fantasies in which blacks and Arabs are murdered.
According to confidential analyzes of the security authorities, there have been repeated weapons finds in prepeaters in Germany in recent years. In about 20 cases such persons and groups belonged to the right-wing extremist scene or to the imperial citizens milieu. Again and again neo-Nazi groups hold training courses on "crisis prevention".
Nevertheless, the security authorities remain so far in the assessment that the prepper scene is not fundamentally anti-constitutional. Only a small part is radical. "For far too long, the security authorities have dismissed groupings like preppers as a harmless spinner," criticizes Green Party politician Konstantin von Notz. "Here, their analytical skills must improve urgently."
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