BERLIN — Germany’s domestic intelligence agency says the number of anti-Semitic acts of violence rose sharply last year alongside a further increase in those identified as far-right extremists.
The BfV agency says in its annual report today that the number of anti-Semitic acts of violence rose by 71.4 % in 2018 to 48 from 28 the previous year.
It also says the number of far-right extremists rose by 100 to 24,100 people last year with more than half of them potentially violent.
Interior Minister Horst Seehofer says, “We can find in almost all areas of far-right extremism hostile attitudes toward Jews … it’s a development that we must take, very, very, very seriously.”
He warns that migrants, Muslims and politicians were considered enemies by the far-right too.
— AP
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