Archive/File: fascism reuters.082693 Last-modified: 1993/09/13 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 23:46 +0300 To: Ken McVay(c) Reuters News Service. May be reproduced in hard copy only with credit to Reuters News Service. Thursday 26-Aug-93 01:03 PM GERMANY CONCERNED AT RISING POLITICAL VIOLENCE By Rolf Soderlind BONN (Reuter) - The German government said Thursday that prosecutors and police must be given more powers to crack down on spiralling neo-Nazi and left-wing violence. ``The roots of the violence must be dealt with,'' Interior Minister Manfred Kanther said in expressing concern at rising extremist outbursts which killed 25 people last year. He called for more surveillance powers for police, looser rules on preventive detention and faster court handling of cases involving political violence. Hostels for foreigners seeking asylum have been a favorite target of rightist and neo-Nazi gangs, according to a report on internal security in 1992 that Kanther released Thursday. Foreign workers, handicapped people, the homeless and Jewish memorials -- 63 last year -- have also been attacked in incidents that tarnished [GERMANY]'s image abroad. But Kanther said far-left violence, including attacks by anarchists on neo-Nazis, was also increasing and the number of organised leftists rose by 2,000 to 28,000 last year. Kanther, presenting the internal security agency's annual report, told reporters that the number of known right-wing extremists rose by 3,000 to 42,700, including 6,400 militants. Those figures excluded the reformed PDS, the ex-East German communists, on the left and the Republicans party on the right. There were 2,584 acts of violence by mostly young right-wing extremists last year, up 74 percent from 1991, and 90 percent of them were aimed against foreigners. Seventeen people died in the rightist attacks, one in leftist violence and another seven in clashes between foreign political extremists living in Germany. More than a thousand rightist attacks were reported in the first six months this year, including the arson deaths of five Turks in Solingen in May, Kanther said. The government banned four neo-Nazi groups last year, but the number of right-wing extremist or neo-Nazi organizations still rose by six to 82. REUTER
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