German police arrest two administrators of the neo-Nazi Internet portal “Altermedia Deutschland” for inciting racial hatred, and the government bans the far-right website.
The suspects, identified only as 47-year-old Jutta V. and Ralph Thomas K., 27, are among five people wanted for publishing illegal xenophobic content on the German-language site.
Federal prosecutors say the website served “the massive and systematic dissemination of right-wing extremist and National Socialist ideas” including “banned Nazi greetings and slogans.”
They say the servers are based in Russia “to shield the website against [German] government intervention,” adding that “Russian authorities have been requested to shut down the site in the next few days.”
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere says the portal has been officially prohibited because its hateful content is “incompatible with our free democratic system.”
— AFP
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