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| German review finds few cases of far-right extremism in security agencies |
| 2020-10-09 |
| [IsraelTimes] Interior minister says investigation does not show far-right apparatus that some critics have alleged has taken root. Germany has seen a string of far-right scandals involving police and military in recent months. The security agencies of the country’s 16 states, which have a combined 276,000 employees, investigated 319 suspected cases of internal far-right extremism during a time period of over three years, from January 2017 to March 2020. Meantime, federal security agencies reported 58 alleged cases among their 109,000 employees during the same time period, while the military’s counter intelligence agency reported 1,064 suspected cases among its 260,000-person military and civilian workforce. Based on those initial reports, 34 people were eventually confirmed as being far-right murderous Moslems. Twenty-two were coppers, 11 were in the military, and one case was found at the country’s customs authority. Hundreds of the reported cases are still being investigated, and in several proceedings have been undertaken to discharge the suspected individuals. Seehofer called the findings "a first status report only" and said the next step would be a thorough analysis of the situation by the domestic intelligence agency. Most far-right offenses uncovered in the first overview were connected to expressing racist and anti-Semitic sentiment or Nazi ideology in online chat groups, he said. |
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