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Mosby

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Mon May 23, 2016, 12:36 PM May 2016

Germany: right-wing violence rose over 40 percent last year

BERLIN (AP) — Violent crimes with a right-wing political motive rose more than 40 percent in Germany last year as the country saw a large influx of migrants, the government said Monday. The number of crimes committed by foreigners was also up more than 10 percent.

German authorities recorded 1,485 violent far-right crimes last year, up from 1,029 the previous year, according to annual crime statistics. As the number of homes for asylum-seekers swelled, so too did crimes targeting them, which more than quadrupled to 923. Acts of violence against those homes increased to 177 from 26 the previous year.

The Interior Ministry reported a large increase in the broader category of "hate crimes," offenses of a racist or anti-Semitic nature or targeting people because of their religion. They rose 77 percent to 10,373 from 5,858 the previous year.

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De Maiziere noted that left-wing violent crimes were even higher than those on the right, rising 34.9 percent to 2,246 incidents, largely directed against the police.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/germany-wing-violence-rose-over-40-percent-last-115711513.html

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commensurate heaven05 May 2016 #1
 

heaven05

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1. commensurate
Mon May 23, 2016, 01:09 PM
May 2016

with the influx of refugees from an area that, because of the Iraq incursion and destruction by Bush/Cheney et al. has left that whole region in chaos and as a breeding ground for violent anti-west extremists. Which is breeding more violent, pathological savages on the RW fringe of humanity who take joy in inflicting more pain on people already in pain because of unwanted dislocation from their homes.

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