Merkel alarmed by rising German right-wing violence

allesennogwat · 01-14-2007, 12:05 PM

Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday she was alarmed by a rise in right-wing violence and called upon Germans and the country's political parties to show courage and stand up against those behind it.

"I'm obviously concerned about the increase of violence by right-wing extremists," she told Deutschlandfunk radio. Germany plans to address the problem across Europe during its six-month European Union presidency this year.

"Extremist violence no matter from which direction can never be accepted. The government has raised efforts to fight it."

The number of far-right crimes in Germany jumped by 20 percent to 8,000 assaults in the first eight months of 2006, according to the latest available police data.

"We need a bit of courage from all the political parties to clearly resist and we're trying in the government to take the problem intensively," she said.

"We should applaud the many people who show courage to stand up, who intervene against right-wing extremist violence," she said. "They're doing the right thing and we need to excite others to take that approach too."

partymember · 01-14-2007, 12:25 PM

are we supposed to be surprised by this?

the eXiLe · 01-14-2007, 12:54 PM

It's alarming alright, but at least the far right nobheads there don't have any real political muscle. Wish I could say the same for here, four years ago the Front National came very close to getting their hands on the country, luckily it all went tits up when the French relised that their protest votes had backfired!

CAMPYBOB · 01-14-2007, 01:43 PM

right wing fascists are as stupid as left wing fascists.

01-14-2007, 12:05 PM	#1
allesennogwat Curio & Relic AKaholic #: 3738 Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 32,452	Merkel alarmed by rising German right-wing violence Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday she was alarmed by a rise in right-wing violence and called upon Germans and the country's political parties to show courage and stand up against those behind it. "I'm obviously concerned about the increase of violence by right-wing extremists," she told Deutschlandfunk radio. Germany plans to address the problem across Europe during its six-month European Union presidency this year. "Extremist violence no matter from which direction can never be accepted. The government has raised efforts to fight it." The number of far-right crimes in Germany jumped by 20 percent to 8,000 assaults in the first eight months of 2006, according to the latest available police data. "We need a bit of courage from all the political parties to clearly resist and we're trying in the government to take the problem intensively," she said. "We should applaud the many people who show courage to stand up, who intervene against right-wing extremist violence," she said. "They're doing the right thing and we need to excite others to take that approach too." __________________ Daraclor: A brand of anti-malaria pills which we had to drink every week while on the border. Legend had it that these would make you turn yellow and that you wouldn't be able to tan.

01-14-2007, 12:25 PM	#2
partymember Curio & Relic AKaholic #: 5600 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: ass Posts: 9,180	are we supposed to be surprised by this? __________________ Vinland Uber Alles

01-14-2007, 12:54 PM	#3
the eXiLe Curio & Relic Contributor AKaholic #: 5154 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Over The Rainbow Posts: 6,925	It's alarming alright, but at least the far right nobheads there don't have any real political muscle. Wish I could say the same for here, four years ago the Front National came very close to getting their hands on the country, luckily it all went tits up when the French relised that their protest votes had backfired! __________________ I love talking about nothing, it is the only thing I know anything about.

01-14-2007, 01:43 PM	#4
CAMPYBOB Moderator AKaholic #: 15 Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: minerva, ohio Posts: 3,977	right wing fascists are as stupid as left wing fascists.

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