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Left-wing MP Kerstin Köditz: “The recent increase in the number of cases is worrying”
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In Saxony, the authorities recorded a total of 149 incidents with a right-wing extremist background in schools last year. This emerges from a response from the Ministry of Culture to a small question from state parliament member Kerstin Köditz (Left).
As the “Leipziger Volkszeitung” first reported, these are significantly more cases than in previous years. In the pre-Corona year of 2019 there were 73 incidents, it said. The values would also have been lower in 2020 (52), 2021 (91) and 2022 (48). "The recent increase in the number of cases is worrying, but can at least partly be attributed to increased awareness," explained Köditz on Wednesday.
According to the information, the incidents affect different types of schools. This includes, among other things, right-wing extremist content in class chats or swastika graffiti on school buildings. During a class's field trip to the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial in May 2023, a student showed the Hitler salute at the bell tower while a classmate filmed him and then distributed the video.
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