LE FIGARO.- What to think of the massacre perpetrated in Hanau (Hesse)?
Jena-Yves CAMUS.- The annual report of the German intelligence services for 2018 signals an increase in illegal acts from the ultra-right and moreover, this is the strongest in a region of the West, the Rhineland-Westphalia, followed by an eastern region, Saxony, and Berlin. The police now isolates, inside the ultra-right, a category of activists: those of the Reichsbürger movement, who consider that the German Republic is legally illegitimate because the Reich never ceased to exist. These people have a propensity for violence, which first manifests itself in Bavaria. Another new category: the self-radicalized, who do not belong to any specific current, as seems to be the case with the terrorist from Hanau. The specificity of Germany is the number of ultra-right activists: 25,350, including 12,700 deemed "oriented towards violence" . Another specificity: the majority of these
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