INVESTIGATION
For the past week, a neo-Nazi has been before German courts, accused of the murder of a politician a year ago. The assassination of Walter Lübcke, killed in cold blood at home, was a shock in Germany. The country realized that it had underestimated the threat of the far right for too long. Especially since after the death of this prefect of the Kassel region, there was the attack on the synagogue of Halle, the xenophobic shootout in the shisha bars of Hanau, the dismantling of a neo-Nazi terrorist cell who wanted to attack mosques…
AfD branches placed under surveillance
Germany realized this year that many people who gravitate in far-right circles are far more radicalized than previously thought. Or determined to take action. Internal intelligence now believes that political movements presented a few years ago as frequentable are in fact factories of far-right terrorists. Like the regional branch of the AfD in Brandenburg, placed last week under surveillance, too close to the neo-Nazis. In March, the nationalist wing of the party was dismantled because it posed a threat to the country.
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Didn't Germany want to see the phenomenon grow? It goes even further. Some accuse the former boss of internal intelligence of having protected the far right for years. Hans-Georg Maassen was sacked by Angela Merkel after the Chemnitz protests a year and a half ago because he claimed that there had been no racist slippages there, despite the videos.
Since then, he has worked for a law firm close to the AfD and identity officials, but denies the accusations of compromise: "at the time, and against the advice of the political class who did not see the point of it , I recruited additional personnel for the fight against the extreme right! All that, it is political! Against me and against my political line! ", he denounces. "By saying that we are a bunch of Nazis, the left is trying to discredit the security services."
Even in the police and the army
Today, the government itself admits that there is a problem in the police and the army. The military intelligence service recently released a report on the radicalization of German army troops. The figures are worrying: 592 soldiers were identified as far-right last year, including 20 for the small, elite KSK unit.
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And this is only the tip of the iceberg, says Europe 1 a former paratrooper. Among soldiers of his regiment, some pose on social networks in Nazi uniforms ... "Soldiers who display unashamedly on the net profiles of right-wing extremists, and yet who are not spotted! I pointed them out and after i "I was dismissed. I was the one who had to leave the army," he testified.
This summer, a former officer is to be tried for his participation in a terrorist plot. In his nebula, there was also an army commando trainer and several police officers. They had a list of more than 20,000 people to slaughter in Germany. Their ammunition all came from police stocks.