The number of people with right-wing extremist attitudes rose again in Germany last year. This emerges from the report for the protection of the constitution for 2020, which Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) presented on Tuesday in Berlin together with the President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Thomas Haldenwang. After that, the number of people in the right-wing extremist spectrum grew by 3.8 percent to 33,300 men and women. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution estimates almost 40 percent of them as "violent, willing to use violence, supportive of violence or violent advocates".
According to security sources, right-wing extremists and right-wing meeting places have also been the target of attacks several times in the past few months.
In Erfurt, a suspected member of the violent right-wing extremist hooligan scene and his pregnant girlfriend were attacked at night in their apartment in May and mistreated by intruders disguised as police officers.
The right-wing extremists that the protection of the constitution has on their radar also include around 1000 so-called Reich citizens.
These are people who do not recognize the Federal Republic and its democratic structures.
That is why they are often in conflict with the authorities.
Not all people who are counted as “Reich citizens and self-administrators” by the security authorities are attributed to right-wing extremism by the protection of the constitution.