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Of the around 100 members of the neo-Nazi network “European Action” (EA), one in two had a gun license.

This emerges from a response by the federal government to a request from the left-wing parliamentary group that WELT has received.

The transnational association of Holocaust deniers observed by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution officially disbanded in 2017 after searches across the country.

Members of the EA are said to have organized paramilitary camps - so-called forest bivouacs - in southern Thuringia.

An indictment has not yet been brought.

The group had set itself the goal of abolishing the state and social order of the Federal Republic of Germany and other European states.

In addition to Holocaust deniers, high-ranking officials were also involved in the association: For example, NPD federal board member Thorsten Heise is said to have made his house available for a meeting in 2013.

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From 2013 to 2017, the group was thematized in a total of 25 meetings of the individual working groups of the “Joint Extremism and Terrorism Defense Center for Combating Right-Wing Extremism / Terrorism” (GETZ-R).

According to Martina Renner, an interior expert for the Left Party, “the number of weapons permits shows the dangerousness of this structure”.

This raises the question "in which networks the former members are organized today," said Renner.

In February 2021, four members of the association were convicted by the Vienna Regional Court for being re-employed by the National Socialists.