The report suggested the rise could be linked to months of non-violent anti-Islam protests by a group calling itself Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West, or PEGIDA. This development is worrisome and must be stopped.”
“Increasingly, asylum seekers and refugee homes are being targeted. “Crimes that have a xenophobic, anti-Semitic and racist motive have especially increased,” de Maiziere said in presenting the report. It is also believed to be behind two bombings and 15 bank robberies.ĭe Maiziere said statistics released Wednesday showed a sharp increase of 22.9 per cent in violent crimes by right-wing extremists in 2014 to 1,029 - including 175 attacks on refugee homes, three times the number in 2013.
Right-wing extremists have been a renewed focus for German intelligence agencies after it came to light that a neo-Nazi group calling itself National Socialist Underground, or NSU, allegedly killed eight Turks, a Greek and a policewoman between 20. “The SS rune is in there - that’s not for nothing,” Lewentz said. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
