Donald Trump announces the classification of Antifa as a terrorist group

President Donald Trump has announced that the Antifa movement in the United States as a “important terrorist organization”. In his post on Truth Social, he did not explain exactly how exactly he wants to implement the lack of organizational structures of the loose movement. “I will also strongly recommend that those who finance Antifa are thoroughly examined in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices,” wrote Trump. The Republican had already announced a corresponding classification during his first term.

His advance takes place a week after the assassination attempt on the right US activist Charlie Kirk, the high waves have been beating in the USA for days. Trump did not establish the reference in the post directly, but had repeatedly held hatred rhetoric “radical left” for the crime in the past few days.

His deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller also recently spoke of an “organized campaign” left -wing groups that led to the crime, and described them as “domestic terrorist movement”. Comprehensive resources of the US government will be used to smash this movement “in the name of Charlie”, said Miller, who is considered a hardliner himself within the Trump camp.

According to non-profit research institutes and civil rights organizations, the Antifa movement has no clear organizational structure in the United States. A few years ago, the then FBI boss Christopher Wray also said that the federal police under Antifa understand a movement rather than an organization.

For Germany, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution comes to a similar conclusion: “The” Antifa “in the sense of a nationwide, clearly boundary and structurally solidified organization of this name currently does not exist.” There are a variety of local groups and initiatives that summarize themselves under the terms “Antifa” or “Anti -Fascist Action” or who have a name component. “Often these are loose, temporary connections with changing people who sometimes, but often not exclusively, act in the left -wing extremist field of” anti -fascism “.”