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In the Country security authorities There were a total of 319 suspected cases of right-wing extremism between 2017 and the end of March 2020. There were also 58 suspected cases with federal security authorities, including 44 cases with the Federal police, six cases in Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) as well as individual cases in inch, the Bundestag police, defense of the constitution (BfV) and Federal Intelligence Service (BND).
This is clear from the first status report of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution on “right-wing extremists in the security authorities”, which was presented on Tuesday morning by the Federal Minister of the Interior, Horst Seehofer (CSU).
Of the federal states, Hessen reported the highest number of suspected cases with 59, followed by Berlin (53), North Rhine-Westphalia (45), Bavaria (31) and Saxony (28). These are mainly incidents with the police authorities. The Saar did not report a single suspected case, one from Bremen. In most cases, disciplinary or criminal proceedings were initiated, and around 20 percent of these proceedings have been discontinued.
According to the status report, the proceedings were often initiated due to the exchange of anti-constitutional symbols in chat messages or anti-constitutional statements. Only in rare cases did officers come into contact with right-wing extremists or groups or participated in right-wing extremist events.
The Bundeswehr cases are shown separately in the report. The reason for this is that the Military intelligence MAD poses suspected cases of right-wing extremism differently. According to the management report, there were a total of 1,064 suspected cases in the Bundeswehr between 2017 and April 2020. In around 400 cases the suspicion could not be confirmed or proven, in 550 cases investigations were still ongoing.
“Considerable danger to the state”
In some federal states, new suspected cases have been added since the baseline date in late March. North Rhine-Westphalia now has 100 suspected police cases as of early 2017. In Essen and Mülheim alone, more than two dozen officers are said to have been part of a far-right chat group. New suspected cases have also been known in Berlin, Thuringia and Saxony in recent days.
“Even if the absolute number of these misconduct relative to the total number of employees in federal and state security authorities is low, it can be assumed that the field is in darkness,” says the 98-page status report of the protection constitutional. “Its continuous and consistent clarification is an outstanding task for the security authorities.” If the weapons-trained officers became extremists, there would be “considerable risk to the state and society,” the newspaper said. Each case is likely to “weaken trust in the state and in state organs.”
