Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) has banned another right-wing extremist organization. On Wednesday morning, police forces searched 26 apartments of 39 members as well as rooms of the association “The Art Community – Germanic Faith Community for Essential Living” in twelve federal states, as the Interior Ministry in Berlin announced. The “Artgemeinschaft” is the 24th right-wing extremist organization to be banned nationwide.
According to the ministry, the ban against the association, which often met in a hotel in Thuringia, had been prepared for more than a year. It was said that the findings of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution were decisive here. The association is directed against the constitutional order and the idea of international understanding.
Faeser described “The Art Community” in a statement as a “sect-like, deeply racist and anti-Semitic association.” The minister also justified her decision with the welfare of children: “This right-wing extremist group has tried to raise new enemies of the constitution through disgusting indoctrination of children and young people.”
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Source: Stern
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