Over 4,000 campaign-related crimes.
According to a report, this is the result of a survey among the federal states.
Jens Spahn warns.
Munich - In connection with the election campaign, according to a media report, the security authorities have so far registered more than 4,200 crimes.
In
its report,
Die
Welt am Sonntag
cites a survey among the federal states, with only Hesse not providing any specific figures.
Accordingly, it is primarily a matter of property damage, in particular to election posters.
But violent crimes, propaganda crimes and insults were also recorded.
Report: Over 4,200 campaign-related crimes
According to the newspaper, not only crimes in the run-up to the federal election * are included, but also cases in connection with other election campaigns such as in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin.
There, the state parliaments * will be re-elected on this Sunday, parallel to the Bundestag.
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Two weeks before the federal election: BKA registers more than 4,000 criminal offenses
The number is consistent with information from the Federal Criminal Police Office in an internal situation report from which Die
Welt am Sonntag
cited.
The BKA had registered 4035 crimes two weeks before the federal election, including 42 violent crimes.
The authorities could not have assigned two thirds of the acts to any political spectrum, the rest were spread across the left-wing extremist and right-wing extremist spectrum.
Spahn comments on the election campaign and warns: "The cycle of agitation and hatred will turn into action"
Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn * (CDU *) told the newspaper: "It is the first election campaign in which I experience that large groups of aggressive disruptors appear at almost every public event".
A kind of "pandemic * extremism" has formed in Germany.
This is difficult to locate politically, but is promoted by "far right" such as the AfD *.
“And the cycle of agitation and hatred turns into action,” Spahn continued.
A week ago in Idar-Oberstein, it was shown how hatred and agitation turn into action.
A man (49) shot and killed a gas station employee.
The young man had asked the customer to wear a mask.
The suspect wanted to set a "sign" against the mask requirement.
(
kam / dpa)
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