The crime of neo-Nazis and other right-wingers this year does not seem to have reached the extremely high figures of 2020 so far. According to information from the Tagesspiegel, the police registered 8,299 crimes nationwide from January to June inclusive, including 332 violent crimes. Right-wing extremists injured at least 99 men and 17 women in physical attacks. In the first half of 2020, the police had already listed 9,305 crimes with 390 violent crimes and 148 injured. In addition, there were nine people killed in the racist attack in Hanau.
The current interim balance is based on the answers of the Federal Ministry of the Interior to inquiries from Bundestag Vice President Petra Pau (left) and her parliamentary group. The pleadings are available to the Tagesspiegel.
The police were able to identify a total of 2,835 suspects in the right-wing offenses in the first half of 2021. However, only ten people were provisionally arrested, and there were arrest warrants against three suspects.
A stronger increase in extremist crimes is to be expected in the election campaign
The new numbers will increase, however, as the police usually report many crimes afterwards. In addition, a stronger increase in politically motivated crime is to be expected in the weeks leading up to the elections to the Bundestag and the state parliaments of Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Experience has shown that crimes by right-wing extremists and other extremists are increasing in election campaigns, especially property damage such as the destruction of posters as well as threats and insults against candidates.
Last year, the police registered a total of 23,604 right-wing crimes, the highest level since 2001. However, this also applied to left-wing crime. Here the police came up with a record of 10 971 crimes. There was also a peak in anti-Semitic offenses. Jew haters committed 2,351 acts, also more than ever before since 2001.
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