Just out: Latest stats from #Germany on right wing #extremists and sovereign citizens identified in German #police, #military and intelligence agencies in 2nd edition of essential governmental report. Key takeaways in a short thread. 1/x
You can download the full report in German for free here: bit.ly/3PmDK15 2/x
Even though of course not perfect, the report sets a new global benchmark for transparency, depth of information and analysis. Absolutely essential for any informed societal debate on this important issue. 3/x
The report looks at all reported cases between July 2018 and June 2021. As always it is essential to understand the separation between investigated and confirmed cases. Investigated but not confirmed means initial suspicion was not confirmed through detailed investigations. 4/x
Investigations can take years sometimes sp there will always be a larger number of open and ongoing cases. In the end, only the confirmed cases provide a baseline. 5/x
In the time-frame of the report, 860 cases were assessed (out of 355,100 total personnel). For 327 (38%) cases concrete evidence for potential extremist attitudes and actions was found. 6/x
What did these people dolomite actually to warrant this classification? For example participate in extremist events or chatgroups, making extremist statements, having personal contacts to known extremists (among other). 7/x
Where are they located? As you can see, broken down by state and absolute number mostly in the south western states. 8/x
Relative by size of the states' agencies, picture is a bit more even. 9/x
Report also did a comprehensive network analysis to explore if and how extreme right networks in security agencies exist and how the look like. As you can see, identified personnel had mostly connections to "legal" or subcultural forms of the extreme right. 10/x
More than half had only connection to one organization. 11/x
Regarding extreme right chatgroups, more than half of cases were only member in one of such a group. 12/x
More worrying though: From the personal extreme right contacts of identified personnel, more than half came from violent extreme right background. 13/x
Just a small snapshot from the main findings of the report, which also includes a list of #PCVE measures taken by federal and state authorities. Overall, the report shows significant development and progress regarding a) identifying and reporting such cases to the public, 14/x
and b) coordinating activities and strategies to prevent and counter this threat. 15/x
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