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Bonn / Erfurt (dpa / th) - The Thuringian Interior Minister Georg Maier (SPD) calls for more empathy and protection for those affected and survivors of right-wing extremist acts of violence.
"I think we are challenged, also on the part of the police, that we have a different approach to victims," said Maier on Tuesday in the Phoenix "talk of the day".
In Thuringia, there has been a sharp increase in anti-Semitic crimes.
More than half of the victims have a history of migration.
"We are called upon not only to fight these crimes, but also to enter into a dialogue with the victims, to work out together what needs to be done to better protect them."
Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) and the President of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), Holger Münch, presented a balance sheet of politically motivated crime in Germany in Berlin on Tuesday. As can be seen from the statistics of the BKA for 2020, the number increased by 8.54 percent compared to the previous year. More than half of these politically motivated acts were therefore on the account of rights. Victims' associations presented their 2020 annual balance sheet on right-wing violence and right-wing extremism in Berlin almost at the same time. The Amadeu Antonio Foundation criticized right-wing extremists in parliaments and on the streets for years, fueling a rhetoric of hatred.
Parties like the AfD, but also so-called Identitarian Movements, also contribute to “that right-wing extremist ideas can seep into society,” said Maier.
The first deputy chairman of the conference of interior ministers called for “zero tolerance” towards right-wing structures in security agencies.
"It cannot be that there are racists in security organs," said Maier.
In Thuringia, this is being pursued very consistently; at the federal level, a closer look must be taken.
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Maier in the Phoenix talk of the day