By the end of September, the Federal Prosecutor General had initiated 97 investigations into international Islamist terrorism. The authority is also increasingly concerned with another area of phenomena.
This year, the Federal Prosecutor General has initiated significantly more investigations into terrorist offenses unrelated to Islamism, right-wing or left-wing extremism than in previous years. However, the largest proportion of the new investigations into terrorist crimes recently launched in Karlsruhe continue to be cases in which Islamist motivation is suspected.
As can be seen from a response from the federal government to a query from the group Die Linke, 75 investigations were initiated by the Federal Prosecutor General in the first nine months of this year in relation to the phenomenon area that is described as “unattributable” in the statistics of politically motivated crime. or in the Office for the Protection of the Constitution under the term “delegitimization of the state”. The answer is available to the German Press Agency.
Most of these cases involve allegations of forming a terrorist organization or failure to report planned crimes. For comparison: In the same period last year, the Federal Prosecutor General only counted seven new investigations initiated in this category.
Six new investigations into suspected right-wing terrorist crimes
According to the information, six investigations were initiated between the beginning of January and the end of September this year on suspected right-wing extremist-motivated terrorist crimes. Eight new investigations related to suspected left-wing terrorism. 82 new cases that began during the same period concerned international terrorism unrelated to Islamism.
The 97 new terror investigations related to international Islamism launched in the first three quarters of this year largely concerned allegations of forming terrorist organizations abroad. One of the proceedings is about the knife attack in Solingen, where a triple murder is being investigated against a Syrian who randomly attacked people at a city festival in August.
Martina Renner, domestic politician for the Left, also suspects a connection to right-wing extremism in the cases that are subsumed under “unattributable or delegitimization of the state”. She says: “81 new investigations by the Federal Prosecutor General in the area of right-wing and supposedly unattributable terrorist groups demonstrate the current danger of extreme right-wing planning for a violent coup against democracy.” This danger is repeatedly trivialized, “despite weapons being found, suspicious soldiers and police officers and death lists of opponents.”
Source: Stern
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