INTERVIEW
Painful awakening for the inhabitants of the city of Hanau, Germany. At around 10 p.m. Wednesday, a man targeted two shisha bars in the city, killing nine, many of them of Kurdish origin. The gunman, found dead in his apartment, is himself from the town of 90,000 inhabitants. The anti-terrorist prosecution was seized. And German Chancellor Angela Merkel denounced Thursday the "poison" of racism, citing the suspect's "xenophobic motivations". As underlined on Europe 1 the French political scientist and specialist of the extreme right, Jean-Yves Camus, this attack comes in the context of a worrying development of the ultra-right in the country.
On a purely political level, there would first, according to the specialist, "a rise to power of a party, 'the Alternative for Germany', whose wing is particularly radical". This branch, explains Jean-Yves Camus, "has just missed very little to make a good political coup, by allying with the CDU, the party of Madame Merkel, in a particular 'Land', that of Turage, it is still unprecedented in the history of Germany. "
Besides the political domain, it is the emergence of an ultra-armed right that worries. "There is the emergence of a violent ultra-right army, which is already in the sights of the authorities. We have since last week various police raids which allow to apprehend people who are in the preparation of attacks which not only target Muslims living in Germany, but also political figures, "said the political scientist.
Foreigners and political figures in the sights
"Last year we saw this attack on a German politician belonging to the CDU. So they are also targeting politicians whom they consider guilty of having welcomed refugees on German soil during the great migratory wave of 2015 , and that they more generally consider traitors to the German nation ", continues Jean-Yves Camus.
The members of this radical movement are more and more numerous and seem ready to take action. "More than 10,000 activists are considered to have a propensity for violence and are followed as such by the security services," said the political scientist.
And the German case is particularly unique because of the number of people "worried". But also through the history of Germany and the "national socialist" past, underlines the director of the Observatory of political radicalities. A nostalgia for the members of these radical movements? "A nostalgia for some and at the same time a government response all the stronger, a police and judicial response. The specter of Nazism still hangs over Germany."