Trump government classifies Antifa as a terrorist group

US President Donald Trump has classified the Antifa movement in the United States as a terrorist organization. The White House published a corresponding arrangement that Trump had recently announced. In it, the Antifa is referred to as militaristic, anarchist organization, which calls violent means to overthrow the US government, the law enforcement authorities and the US legal system. It is therefore a “domestic terrorist organization”. There will be an investigation into Antifa and organizational and financial supporters.

The step takes place almost two weeks after the fatal assassination attempt on the right activist and Trump confidante Charlie Kirk, who further deepened the political ditches in the United States and has strongly emotionalized the public debate. Trump then pillorized “the radical left” in the country and blamed her serious allegations. No direct references to the death of Kirks were mentioned in the arrangement against Antifa.

How exactly the US government wants to implement the announced investigation due to the lack of organizational structures of the loose movement is unclear. According to non-profit research institutes and civil rights organizations, the Antifa movement has no clear organizational structure in the United States.

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 “.”