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Lower Saxony's Interior Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD): »Premature election campaign skirmish«
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Lower Saxony's Interior Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) accuses the Greens and FDP of blocking a law against hate crime and right-wing extremism.
At the end of January, the Federal Council temporarily stopped a law on repairs relating to inventory data information because the states with government participation by the Greens and the FDP did not approve the law.
With the draft, the grand coalition had responded to requirements of the Federal Constitutional Court, which had declared the current legal situation unconstitutional.
"The blockade of the Greens and FDP in the Federal Council is incomprehensible and irresponsible," says Pistorius.
"From my point of view, that can only be explained with premature electoral skirmishes." Neither the Greens nor the FDP have so far plausibly explained what specifically bothers them about the Repair Act.
Because this does not come into force, according to Pistorius, the consequence is: A necessary and effective action against hate crime and right-wing extremism will be thwarted.
Pistorius initiated a letter from the Conference of Interior Ministers (IMK), which is to be sent to the chairman of the mediation committee, Hermann Gröhe (CDU).
The law against hate crime is of paramount importance.
The murder of Walter Lübkcke, the attack in Halle and the assassination attempt in Hanau recently showed what incitement, anti-Semitism and extremist ideas could lead to, according to the letter that SPIEGEL has received.
"The radicalization is increasingly taking place online." This would lay the foundations for later right-wing extremist acts of violence and assassinations.
The changes made to the Network Enforcement Act in the draft law continue at this point, the letter continues.
"By including a - clearly limited - reporting obligation for the operators of social networks to the Federal Criminal Police Office, law enforcement authorities can take more targeted action against criminal offenses on the Internet."
We are jointly obliged "to act decisively and with all means of the constitutional state against hatred and agitation and thus against inhuman acts", and ask Gröhe to "bring about a speedy agreement" in the mediation committee.
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