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Right-wing extremism in Germany, an incomplete overview. The facts are frightening.

- June 2019, Walter Lübcke (German politician) was murdered on his property.

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- June 2019 another house search. A group of right-wing extremists apparently wanted to order around 200 body bags and caustic lime for attacks on political opponents.

- July 2019 racist attempted murder with a gun in Hesse.
- October 2019 right-wing extremist anti-Semitic attack in Halle.

- From January to August 2019, a total of 12,493 offences "with a political right-wing background" were registered, including 625 acts of violence.
- 271 people were injured in attacks by right-wing extremists. The police consider three attacks as attempted killings.

- More than 1,200 crimes against politicians. Most of them had been committed by right-wing extremists.
- February 2020 Twelve men were arrested Friday on charges of forming and supporting a far-right terrorism network planning wide-ranging attacks on politicians, asylum seekers and Muslims.

You can't say you didn't notice.
Since reunification, several hundred people have been murdered by right-wing extremists in Germany. The numbers vary due to the attribution and recognition of the motives by courts and police investigations. 85 murders according to official figures registered by the BKA. #rwe
169 / 198 murders researched by newspapers and NGOs.
With 625 acts of violence from January to October 2019, this means that in Germany until October 2019 two people became victims of right-wing extremist violence every day.
Since 1951 in Germany
- 19 right-wing extremist organisations banned at federal level
- 75 extreme right-wing organisations at national level
- 3 foreign organizations
thus 97 extreme right-wing organisations were banned in 71 years.
An interesting aspect of this, Blood&Honuor was banned in 2000. The militant arm of this group, #Combat18 this year, so 20 years later.
Between 2012 and 2018, the Federal Prosecutor's Office initiated or took over a total of twelve proceedings against right-wing extremists on suspicion of terrorism.
According to official figures, 32,000 organised right-wing extremists were counted in 2019, including 13,000 violent / militant neo-Nazis.
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