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Right-wing extremist graffiti on Jewish gravestones in the Rostock district
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The Federal Ministry of the Interior reports a new sad record of anti-Semitic crimes in Germany.
According to preliminary findings, a total of 3028 such offenses were reported in 2021.
This is reported by the "Tagesspiegel".
The information is a response from the Federal Ministry of the Interior to inquiries from Bundestag Vice President Petra Pau (left) and her parliamentary group.
As early as 2020, there was a high in the Federal Republic with around 2,300 anti-Jewish crimes.
But now there is an increase of almost 30 percent.
In addition, according to the information, the number of violent crimes included in the total has also grown.
In 2021, the police registered a total of 63 anti-Semitic assaults and other violent crimes.
That's six more than in 2020. At least 24 people were injured.
The numbers now available reflect the status of February 3 and therefore already contain late reports from the police.
Nevertheless, a further increase is to be expected, since experience has shown that crimes from the past year are still reported at least until March.
The ministry's response also mentions four fatalities from anti-Semitic violence.
It is about a crime in Königs Wusterhausen in Brandenburg that was not previously known to the public as anti-Semitic: on December 4, 2021, a suspected anti-vaccination shot his wife, three daughters aged four to ten and himself. The man was apparently rooted in the "lateral thinker" milieu and believed in various conspiracy ideologies.
The Ministry's response to the case says, "According to the current state of knowledge, the suspect was convinced that the state was pursuing an evil plan with the vaccination campaign and wanted to reduce the world population by half and establish a new world order under Jewish leadership".
The classification of the act as anti-Semitic resulted from the suspect's view that "there was a global Jewish conspiracy".
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