Newspaper: the scene is fed up: Reich citizens ready for "greater violence"

Monday, July 23, 2018

Federal Minister of the Interior Seehofer and the head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Maaßen, present the report of 2017 on the protection of the Constitution. According to one source, special attention is paid to the subject of the citizens of the Reich.

"Reich citizens" and "self-administrators" are very popular and are partly ready for a report on "the most serious acts of violence". Meanwhile, about 16,500 people attributed to this scene, wrote the "Bild", citing the "Conservation Report 2017", the Interior Minister Horst Seehofer on Tuesday with the President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Hans-Georg Maaßen. 900 members of the scene are right-wing extremists. In 2016, there were 800 and a total of 12,800 people had heard of the scene.

Three quarters of the scene are men and more than 40 years according to the German Constitutional Protection Agency. Both groups – the "Reich Citizens" and "self-administrators" – do not recognize the Federal Republic of Germany as a state, reject its legal system and often refuse to pay taxes or duties. fines. The members would therefore currently be clbadified by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution as "anti-state and extremist," the paper continues.

According to constitutional protection, the scene is characterized by a strong militancy and a "strong affinity with the weapons". "The" citizens of the Reich "and the" self-administrators "are in the opinion of the security authority" ready to use their weapons for the most serious acts of violence. "

Source: n-tv.de