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Large-scale police operation against right-wing scene: 190 forces blow up music event

2023-06-04T16:21:05.398Z

Highlights: 190 officers were deployed in the district of Altenkirchen. 80 participants had gathered in a barbecue hut. Rhineland-Palatinate is taking a clear stance against the right. Music events of this kind serve to strengthen and consolidate right-wing extremist structures, the police say in a press release.Such events could further radicalize the participants, warns the press office. "The lyrics of right- wing extremist-influenced bands can express violence, xenophobia, nationalism and racism," says the police.



Music event dissolved: The police in Rhineland-Palatinate took action against a meeting of the right-wing scene on Saturday evening. (Symbolic image) © Torsten Silz/dpa/picture alliance

In Rhineland-Palatinate, the police have broken up a right-wing music event. 190 officers were deployed in the district of Altenkirchen.

Frankfurt/Koblenz – "Right-wing extremists cannot do what they want in Rhineland-Palatinate," Michael Ebeling (SPD) told Focus. The Minister of the Interior of Rhineland-Palatinate praises the deployment against the right: "We do not tolerate that enemies of the constitution strengthen their structures unhindered and spread their despicable ideas. The police consistently stop such goings-on."

Police stop right-wing music event in Rhineland-Palatinate: Several offices in action

On Saturday evening, 190 police officers broke up an event of the right-wing extremist scene in the district of Altenkirchen. 80 participants had gathered in a barbecue hut. The police established the identities and missed them reprimands, said the police headquarters in Koblenz on Sunday.

Numerous other departments had supported the operation "for security reasons". Rhineland-Palatinate is taking a clear stance against the right. "Music events of this kind serve to strengthen and consolidate right-wing extremist structures and to spread right-wing ideas," the police wrote in a press release.

Such events could further radicalize the participants, warns the press office. "The lyrics of right-wing extremist-influenced bands can express violence, xenophobia, nationalism and racism."

At the end of April, the police in Hesse were able to prevent a right-wing martial arts meeting. The scene had arranged to meet in a gym in Bad Wildungen. There, the forces found right-wing rock CDs and a knife.

Source: merkur

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