FRANKFURT, Aug 25 (Reuters) - The suspect in custody for a stabbing rampage in the western German city of Solingen that killed three people and injured eight is a 26-year-old Syrian man, authorities said early on Sunday.
FRANKFURT, Aug 25 (Reuters) - The suspect in custody for a stabbing rampage in the western German city of Solingen that killed three people and injured eight is a 26-year-old Syrian man, authorities said early on Sunday.
The German internal secret service (BfV) counted 1148 violent right-wing offenses in 2023. There were 329 violent offenses with “foreign” ideological background (this includes islamism among many other things) in 2023. Source PDF
I should probably note that BfV is known for being a little blind to right-wing extremism too.
Previous BfV president Maaßen has in the meantime become the leader of his very own right-wing party. I do trust current BfV president Haldenwang a bit more than him but I don’t think he’s been able to unfuck the organization as a whole.
Thank you. And fatalities? We can all surely agree that this is an important metric.
It’s not listed. But I am almost certain there’s some proportionality here.
OK. I will stay humble in my assertions since I’m too lazy to research the matter myself. But I am almost certain that there is not proportionality. That the far-right terrorist acts tend to be much smaller in scale and creating few victims and far fewer fatalities. Arson, that sort of thing. And that this qualitative difference in the terrorism is therefore the cause of much misunderstanding and indeed bad feeling in this debate, as some feel that they see an obvious false equivalence. But I’m straying from confirmed facts and liable to get accused of terrible things so I will stop there.
This whole line of argumentation is lazy. Claiming that arson doesn’t create victims and doesn’t potentially kill people. wtf?
The whole “difference in quality” comes down to reporting. Burning refugee homes is so normal that it often only makes local news here.