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Schwerin (dpa / mv) - The number of politically motivated crimes in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania fell by almost a quarter last year.

This emerges from the answers of the state government to four small questions from the left in the state parliament.

According to this, the police registered 1,103 incidents after 1,425 in the previous year.

The authorities attributed most of the cases - 823 last year - to perpetrators from the right-wing extremist camp, the vast majority of which were classified as so-called propaganda offenses (592).

No such offenses were recorded from the left camp.

This category of offenses includes, for example, the use of symbols of unconstitutional organizations.

Last year, the left-wing camp accounted for 142 politically motivated crimes, nine in the area of ​​"foreign ideology" and four in "religious ideology".

125 incidents could not be assigned to any area.

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According to the information, 69 people were injured in politically motivated acts of violence in MV last year, 47 of them in attacks in which the perpetrator or perpetrators allegedly came from the right-wing extremist camp.

There were 14 people injured in attacks allegedly by left-wing extremists.

The left-wing faction in the state parliament asks the figures for politically motivated crime in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after every quarter.

Your domestic political spokesman for the parliamentary group, Peter Ritter, said on Friday that politically motivated crimes and offenders in the “right-wing” area continued to determine the statistics.

"Demands for an urgently needed change of strategy in the fight against political extremism towards the" left "are unfounded."

© dpa-infocom, dpa: 210205-99-320066 / 2

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