The number of right-wing extremists in hiding remains high this year. As of March 31, the police were looking for 602 arrest warrants for 459 neo-Nazis and other rights. A total of 118 people are wanted for a violent crime. In more than 100 cases, the arrest warrants have been open for at least three years.
However, only 114 right-wing extremists who have disappeared are politically motivated crimes. This emerges from the response of the Federal Ministry of the Interior to a request from Left MP Ulla Jelpke and her parliamentary group. The paper is available to the daily mirror.
In September 2020, the police were looking for a total of 477 right-wing extremists with 628 arrest warrants. The ministry says 264 arrest warrants could be executed or fined. In the period up to the end of March 2021, however, many new arrest warrants were added. “For every Nazi whose arrest warrant is dealt with, there is someone else who is wanted,” complained Jelpke, accusing the federal government of indifference.
A bizarre case in Cambodia
According to the police, there were allegedly 64 wanted right-wing extremists abroad at the end of March. The Ministry of the Interior lists 30 countries, from Austria to Afghanistan. Most of the people in hiding, seven each, are suspected to be in Austria and Poland, and another six in Switzerland. The list also includes a bizarre case that the Tagesspiegel reported in September 2019.
A violent right-wing extremist from Saxony who beat up an Afghan and committed other crimes fled to Cambodia in 2018.
The man should have reported regularly to the police in Saxony after early release from custody, but after several months he no longer did that. The Dresden Regional Court then revoked the probation and issued an “enforcement arrest warrant”. In Cambodia, however, the right-wing extremist became a criminal again. He tore a local off the moped and stole the vehicle.
The police arrested the German in November 2018. A court sentenced him to three years in prison. If Cambodia were to deport the German right-wing extremist to the Federal Republic after serving his sentence, he would have to be jailed for another four months.
Federal Court of Justice comments on revisions in the NSU proceedings
Meanwhile, the Federal Court of Justice announced that it would inform about decisions on the revisions in the NSU proceedings this Thursday. The alleged NSU terrorist Beate Zschäpe, who had lived underground with two right-wing extremist murderers for almost 14 years, and three co-defendants appealed against the penalties after the judgment of July 11, 2018 in the NSU trial at the Munich Higher Regional Court. The hardest hit was Zschäpe.
The Munich Criminal Senate, chaired by Manfred Götzl, sentenced the woman to life imprisonment for membership in a terrorist organization, tenfold murder and other crimes.
The judges also determined that the guilt was particularly serious. If the Federal Court of Justice should overturn the judgment against Zschäpe, at least part of the NSU trial would have to be repeated. The main hearing in Munich had lasted more than five years. The NSU murderers Uwe Böhnhardt and Uwe Mundlos shot a total of nine migrants and one policewoman from 2000 to 2007. Zschäpe was allegedly never at the scene, but is said to have participated in the crimes from the escape apartments.
Böhnhardt and Mundlos shot each other in Eisenach in November 2011 when the police tracked them down after a bank robbery.
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