Germany has announced a spike in far-right crime and warned that political extremists are 'the biggest threat to our country.'
The interior ministry reported another annual increase in anti-Semitic crimes, up by 15.7 per cent in 2020, dark market onion with 2,351 total incidents - 94.6% of which were committed by a far-right suspect.
Of the total, 62 were acts of violence while the majority were antisemitic hate speech and other related crimes, frequently on social media.
Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said: 'This development in Germany is not only troubling, but in view of our history, deeply shameful.' 




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Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (pictured on Tuesday) said: 'This (anti-Semitic) development in Germany is not only troubling, but in view of our history, deeply shameful.'

The demonstrations have become increasingly violent, and the country's domestic intelligence service late last month said it had put some members of the loose-knit Querdenker movement under observation.
The protests have brought together a broad range of demonstrators, including people opposing vaccinations, others who deny the existence of the coronavirus, mask opponents, conspiracy theorists and others.
Seehofer said the protests have also attracted neo-Nazis and other right-wing extremists, and have regularly become violent.
'At these gatherings organized by the so-called Querdenker movement, attacks are directed against police officers and the press,' Seehofer said.
'Of the 260 reported crimes against journalists, 112 were related to corona' protests, he said.

'I want to say here very clearly: These acts of violence are no longer about exercising a constitutional right (to demonstrate), but are acts of violence of a criminal nature that I condemn in the strongest possible terms.'