Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday said Germany must resist
neo-Nazis “without any taboos” following the killing of a local
politician by a suspected right-wing extremist.
Such violence “must be resisted from the outset and without any
taboos,” Merkel said during an address to the Protestant Church Congress
in the western city of Dortmund.
“This is why the state is called upon (to act) at all levels and the
federal government takes this very, very seriously,” said Merkel.Her
remarks came days after police arrested an alleged neo-Nazi for shooting
dead Kassel city local politician Walter Luebcke Merkel’s fellow
Christan Democrat at his home in the western town on June 2.
The 45-year-old killer has allegedly blamed his action on his anger at an influx of refugees and migrants to Germany.
Several other German politicians believed sympathetic to the migrant
cause have been threatened, and that, coupled with the Luebcke shooting,
prompted Merkel to speak out.
“This is not just a terrible act but also a major challenge for us to
examine on all fronts where there are extreme-right tendencies,” said
Merkel.
Hours before her speech, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas had warned on Twitter that “Germany has a terrorism problem.
“We have more than 12,000 violent rightwing extremists in our
country,” said Maas, lamenting that 450 of them were able to stay
underground “even though they are the subject of an arrest warrant.”
Maas, a Social Democrat coalition partner of Merkel, said Germans had
to call out extremist behaviour for what it is and said they must “not
concede a millimetre to enemies of freedom.”
Interior Minister Horst Seehofer meanwhile warned of a “very
dangerous development” and said the government would be looking at ways
of placing restrictions on the far right.
“This killing moves me to do everything possible to reinforce
security,” Seehofer, a member of the Christian Democrats’ conservative
partner the Christian Social Union, told the Funke media group in an
interview.
One mooted restriction is curbing the right to express extremist
views online and making them subject to legal action for “inciting
hatred.”
Seehofer said Berlin would assess how constitutionally it might take
even tougher measures and deprive some people of their basic rights.
“Ours is the ministry in charged of questions touching on the
constitution. We shall seriously examine the possibilities,” Seehofer
told Funke.
Peter Tauber, a Merkel ally and former CDU general secretary, urged
that “enemies of the constitution” should be deprived of certain rights
including to express their views publicly and to hold meetings.
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