Media report
Thousands of extremists in Germany are legally armed
A survey shows that at least 2500 extremists in Germany have legal firearms, including many right -wing extremists. The government’s action plan has little effect.
According to a media report, at least 2500 people classified as extremists have legal firearms. According to this, more than two thirds of these people are right -wing extremists, neo -Nazis, so -called Reich citizens or radical lateral thinkers.
Government wanted to disarm extremists
According to the report, however, the number is not very meaningful, the actual number should be even higher: only eleven of the 16 federal states would have stated how many weapons in possession of extremists have given only eight of the type of extremism the respective weapons owners belong.
According to the NDR and WDR, 661 firearms in the hands of extremists are in Baden-Württemberg. However, no information about the type of extremism was given here. There are 447 in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and 386 right-wing extremists in Rhineland-Palatinate.
150 people from left -wing extremist, Islamist or other spectra were also one of the legal firearm owners across Germany.
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In March 2022, Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) presented an action plan against right -wing extremism. Among other things, this aimed to consistently disarm the right -wing extremist spectrum. According to the then position, around 1,500 people stored “as a suspected right -wing extremist persons” over weapons.
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Source: Stern
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