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Mainz (dpa) - The victim aid organization Weißer Ring wants to make "hatred and agitation" and the brutalization of society the annual topic in 2021

The aim is to raise public awareness, to sound out the reasons for increasing aggression and to find solutions.

"We are not only concerned about the verbal brutalisation in politics and other disputes, but that this is also reflected in mentally unstable personalities," said the federal chairman of the Association for the Support of Victims of Violence, Jörg Ziercke, of the German Press Agency Mainz.

"We know that hatred and agitation in the digital world also have an effect in reality." The murder of the Kassel district president Walter Lübcke and the attacks in Halle and Hanau were preceded by digital hate and agitation scenarios. «This must be counteracted decisively.»