In Lower Saxony: More right-wing extremist crimes in faculties | EUROtoday

According to a newspaper report, the variety of right-wing extremists is rising in Lower Saxony crimes at faculties. In 2024, 322 right-wing politically motivated crimes have been registered in school rooms, on the schoolyard or in different instructional establishments – in 2022 there have been solely 133 circumstances, in line with a report within the “Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung” primarily based on information from the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office offered by the Ministry of Culture and the Interior. “Spiegel” had beforehand reported.

Most circumstances contain using so-called symbols of unconstitutional organizations – akin to right-wing extremist symbols. 243 such circumstances have been counted in 2024. Incitement to hatred (42 circumstances), harm to property (19) and insults additionally play a task. According to the report, the rise is obvious in anti-Semitic crimes: their quantity quadrupled between 2022 and 2024 from 6 to 24 circumstances.

According to the newspaper report, the statistics cowl not solely schoolyards, school rooms and academics’ rooms, but additionally all crime scenes within the training sector. This additionally consists of universities.

The Ministry of Interior assessed the event as a worrying development. According to the Ministry of Culture, legal acts are reported in faculties, and incidents in on a regular basis college life are handled on the similar time.

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