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Berlin (dpa / bb) - The number of acts of violence by left-wing extremists in Berlin has increased significantly in the past year, according to a report by broadcaster RBB (Friday).
According to this, the police recorded 439 such crimes (2029: 263).
They are mainly about arson attacks, bodily harm, breaches of the peace and resistance offenses.
Many take place in connection with evictions and demonstrations.
But acts of violence by right-wing extremists also increased as a result: 170 offenses were recorded here (2019: 161).
The police did not initially confirm these figures and referred to the planned publication in March.
Accordingly, the number of attacks on the offices of parties has increased.
There were 65 attacks in this area last year (2019: 38).
The police also confirmed this.
The SPD (27 attacks) and the AfD (11) were most frequently the target of this damage.
According to the police, most of the perpetrators came from left-wing extremist circles.
139 crimes (2019: 92) such as insults and threats on the Internet or physical attacks were directed directly against politicians.
Of these, 74 are right-wing extremists and 36 left-wing extremists.
The total number of all criminal offenses with a political background rose to around 6,000 - about a third more than in 2019. In the left-wing extremist area, there was an increase of 50 percent.
A large proportion of these are propaganda offenses and insults.
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The coordinator of the state security in the State Office of Criminal Investigation (LKA), André Rauhut, told the RBB that the left-wing extremist attacks against parties affected, besides the AfD, mainly the SPD because it provided the interior senator.
The police are "of course concerned" about the significant increase in the acts of leftists - especially since a similar development can be expected for the current year.
Recent attacks on constituency offices of the SPD, the Greens and the CDU with left-wing extremist messages could confirm this.
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