Verfassungsschutzbericht 2017: More Salafists, more Reich citizens, more leftist violence in Germany

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Z The idea of ​​the report on the protection of the Constitution had already been announced, but the Minister of the Interior, Horst Seehofer, had more important things to do. The CSU politician has beaten bitterly with his Chancellor about the asylum policy.

With three weeks late, the time had come: Tuesday in Berlin the report of 358 pages, the most important for the internal security in Germany.

Left-wing street violence, rights with baseball bats

Seehofer and the President of the Federal Constitutional Protection Hans-Georg Maaßen presented it together. What worries them the most: in all areas of extremism, the propensity to violence increases. Thus, in Hamburg, where the pursuers have fought street battles to the police, or to Halle, on the Saale, where the inhabitants of a self-defense project have claimed and taken d & # 39; badaulting baseball bats against protesters.

According to the report on the protection of the constitution, the violence of leftist extremists increased significantly last year, from 1,200 in 2016 to 1650 last. The G-20 summit served as an accelerator – only 1020 cases referred to it. "Conditions like Hamburg do not have to be repeated in Germany," said Seehofer. His supreme constitutional protector Maaßen said that violent leftist extremists are no longer as isolated as before.

The number of violent acts motivated by right-wing extremists decreased: in 2016, 1,600 cases were recorded, compared to 1,050 the previous year. But this has a lot to do with the decline of refugee migration and, according to Mabadens, there is no reason to be clear.

The extremist scene on the right comprises 24,000 sympathizers, 13,000 of whom are considered violent. In addition, there are right-wing terrorist tendencies, the titles last year made the "Freital Group", the "Oldschool Society" and the "Nauener Group". Some members were sentenced to long prison terms

The constitution's protection report devotes its own chapter to the so-called citizens of the Reich. In terms of numbers, this scene has the greatest increase. It is now allocated 16,500 people, an increase of more than 60%. But the growth rate is on a more insignificant inspection. Maaßen explains it as follows: "The information improves."

Reich citizens and self-administrators have long ignored the Federal Office of Cologne. Just as late as December 2014, Maaßen told the Bundestag that "not all people in themselves are right-wing extremists" in this movement. You can not do a uniform badessment; and since the supporters did not have a national structure, they were not subject to the federal report on constitutional protection.

This position has been revised by Mabaden. The reason for the change of heart: In August 2016, a Reich citizen in Saxony-Anhalt injured two SEK officials in an eviction with firearm shots. Two months later, a policeman was shot dead in Bavaria during a similar mission. Since these acts, the image of the citizens and self-administrators of the Reich as grumpy, but harmless spinners of the past.

The citizens of the Reich even confide terror to

The Federal Office of Criminal Police (BKA) trusts the movement. He is ready for "extreme violence to terrorist actions," he says in a confidential situation. Maaßen also does not want to exclude such a scenario.

Seehofer and Mabaden see another serious threat from Islamist terrorists. The Islamist terrorist potential identified in Germany by security forces is currently rising to 1,880 – and the number is increasing.

According to Maaßen, there are currently 774 Islamist authors whom the authorities consider responsible for terrorist attacks. These are "as many people as ever before," said Seehofer. In particular, security authorities have about 1,000 people who have traveled from Germany to Syria and Iraq to the Islamic State. Maaßen reported that 190 of these Islamists lost their lives and others were captured. "We have to badume that people will come back to Germany," Maaßen said. About 350 Islamists are already back here

Arrest of an Islamist before the press conference

The president particularly worries about 300 children who have traveled to these countries since the Federal Republic of Germany. Germany: "One tenth of them are already back". these children are indoctrinated Islamists. Meanwhile, the number of Salafists in this country has exceeded 10,000 for the first time. The report speaks of 10,800 people

Seehofer said that several attacks had been prevented, also thanks to the work of the constitutional protection agency. He pointed to a compound Islamist in Cologne, who apparently wanted to build a bomb from highly toxic castor. His wife was arrested hours before the press conference.