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According to a media report, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) counts more than 350 suspected cases of right-wing extremism in the German security authorities. This emerges from the first draft of the management report on the subject, on which the “Welt am Sonntag” reports. Therefore, the document classified as confidential illuminates the period from the beginning of January 2017 to the end of March 2020.
The BfV requested the Federal Intelligence Service, the Military Counterintelligence Service, the Federal Criminal Police, the Federal Police, the 16 state police forces and the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which together have around 300,000 employees. The authorities had to complete a questionnaire on cases of right-wing extremists in their homes, which was then centrally assessed by the BfV.
Hessen particularly affected
According to “Welt am Sonntag”, Hessen reported the most suspected cases of right-wing extremists among the federal states. The Ministry of the Interior explains this by saying that internal investigations have been carried out particularly intensively in this area for two years. In Hessen In the last three years, 59 official and labor measures were carried out. Disciplinary proceedings were initiated in 50 of them, 29 were suspended, the newspaper wrote. In eleven cases there were dismissals or non-appointments as civil servants.
North Rhine-Westphalia has 43 suspected cases for the national status report reported from the beginning of 2017 to the end of March 2020. Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) reported this to the state parliament last week. Since then, however, numerous cases have been added, especially with Essen police, so the country now speaks of 100 suspected cases of right-wing extremism since 2017.
In recent months, incidents of right-wing extremists in the security authorities had repeatedly caused a stir. Recently, a far-right chat group was discovered within the police in North Rhine-Westphalia. In Leipzig, a police officer is suspected of “making far-right and racist remarks”, also as a participant in a chat, as the Leipzig police headquarters announced on Friday.
A SPIEGEL survey in the summer had already shown that there were at least 340 suspected cases in the countries since 2014 of far-right, racist or anti-Semitic activities between police officers and police candidates. There were 73 in the Federal Police since 2012. Among these cases you can also find “Reichsbürger” in uniform, only in Bavaria there were 18, in the Federal Police twelve.
