humble3d Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 German police search homes in crackdown on far-right extremists About 200 German police searched a dozen homes in six states on Wednesday as part of an investigation into a far-right extremist group suspected of planning armed attacks against police, Jews and asylum seekers, the chief prosecutor's office said. The prosecutor's office said the early morning raids included searches of the homes of six people believed to have founded the new group, and that of a seventh person who is suspected of helping the group obtain supplies. "The goal of today's search measures was to obtain further evidence of the actual creation of a formal group, as well as the alleged planned criminal acts and any potential tools," the office said in a statement. There were no details of any arrests. The prosecutor's office was not immediately available to comment. It said the suspects were largely connected via social media and were believed to have begun planning armed attacks in the spring of 2016. The prosecutor's office did not name the group but German media reported the raids were directed against members of a group calling itself "Reichsbuerger", or Citizens of the Reich. The group does not recognize modern Germany as a legitimate state and maintains that the former, far larger "Deutsche Reich" is still alive despite Nazi Germany's defeat in World War Two. Germany's BfV domestic intelligence agency warned last year about a rise in far-right violence after the influx of more than a million migrants and called for concrete steps to avert the emergence of what it called "right-wing terrorist structures". The number of far-right extremists jumped to 12,100 in 2016 from around 11,800 in 2015, according to a report in the Tagesspiegel German newspaper which cited security sources. Officials at the BfV intelligence agency had no immediate comment on the reported numbers. German authorities broke up a suspected ultra-right militant group known as "Oldschool Society" last year but have warned about the emergence of similar groups elsewhere. Wednesday's raids occurred in Berlin and the states of Baden-Wuerttemerg, Brandenburg, Lower Saxony, Rhineland-Palatinate and Sachsen-Anhalt. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-extremists-idUSKBN15913C?il=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straycat19 Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Have to love the Polizei. Accompanied them several times in investigations back in the 80s, no warrant needed, just a knock on the door at 3am and in we went. And they know how to take care of demonstrators with their high power water cannons that shoot streams of cs (tear gas) impregnated water. Those honeys will knock down 55 gal drums full of cement and push them down a street like they were made of paper. I saw them make quick work of a group of communist demonstrators back in the mid 70s in Berlin. When the trucks stopped rolling the demonstrators had literally been 'washed' along the street for 5 blocks. The U.S. could learn some things from them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marinegirl Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Germany Unleashes New 'Ministry Of Truth' Submitted by Stefan Frank via The Gatestone Institute, It seems that all ideas suspected of being "populist" -- or simply those ideas without the blessing of the elites -- will now be banned in Germany. This restriction applies to criticism of the government (especially regarding immigration and energy policies), of the EU, of Islam, of government officials and of the media. As in communist dictatorships, the more obvious the failings of the government, the more aggressively the establishment attacks those who speak out about them. Large companies such as Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile), BMW, Mercedes-Benz and the supermarket chain REWE obeyed straightaway and promised to place Breitbart on the blacklist immediately, and never to advertise there again. A plucky little pizza delivery service responded to the blacklisting demand by declaring that it was "not the morality police". The company was denounced by Der Spiegel as "inept", and after "protests from customers", it ended up capitulating, as the newspaper reported with much satisfaction. The elites and intellectuals are apparently now counted among the German minorities in need of protection. Toward the end of last year, Germany experienced a previously unheard-of boycott campaign – funded by the German government, no less -- against several websites, such as the popular "Axis of Good" ("Achse des Guten"). The website, critical of the government, was suddenly accused of "right-wing populism". Full article at.....http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-24/germany-unleashes-new-ministry-truth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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