Germany has banned the group ‘Hammerskins Germany’, which defends and promotes ‘racial theory based on Nazi ideology’, the German federal government announced on Tuesday.
Searches were carried out in ten regions of Germany on Tuesday, targeting 28 apartments belonging to members of the organization, according to a press release from the Ministry of the Interior (equivalent to the Ministry of the Interior).
The ban also applies to regional branches and the organization “Crew 38”, also based on an association law.
Germany is dealing “a heavy blow to organized right-wing extremism,” Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said in the same statement.
“We put an end to the inhuman activities of an internationally active (and current) neo-Nazi association in Germany”he added.
This is the twentieth ban that the Berlin government has imposed on an extreme right-wing organization in Germany.
The group “Hammerskins Germany” is an offshoot of the “Hammerskins Nation” movement, founded in 1988 in the United States.
The German section, which has 130 members, plays a “Leadership role in the context of the far right in Europe”is emphasized in the same ministry note.
The dissemination of a racial theory based on Nazi ideology is central to the group’s activities, through concerts, the distribution of recordings and the sale of anti-Semitic objects.
The group’s members – all over the world – call themselves ‘brothers’ and consider themselves the far-right ‘skinhead elite’.
Germany has put far-right terrorism at the top of its threat list after several attacks, including an attempted attack on a synagogue in Halle, in the east of the country, in October 2019, and another racially motivated attack in Hanau, near Frankfurt. in February, leaving nine dead.
Source: DN
