A chronicle of right-wing violence.

Fine imposed after racist insult

On the evening of 17th october 2022, a traffic accident occurred in Krumbach. A completely uninvolved 43-year-old man came and racially insulted one of the injured several times. On 12th of april 2023, the court hearing took place before the Günzburg District Court, at which the court ordered the provisional discontinuation of the proceedings pursuant to § 153 a Abs. 2 StPO. The defendant must pay a fine of €1500 to the Diabetes Kinder Ulm e.V. association in order for the dismissal to become legally binding.

Source: Allgäu rechtsaußen

Racist attack at the train station

On the morning of 24th of June 2023, a racist attack occurred at Schweinfurt Central Station. A witness first reported to the police a heavily intoxicated and helpless person. Shortly thereafter, he shared that this person was being racially insulted by two other men, slapped in the face and pelted with change. The police arrested two suspects, aged 29 and 21, who continued their racist insults. They were also heavily intoxicated and aggressive towards the police officers, which is why they were taken into custody. The victim was also taken into custody.

Source: police

„Stolpersteine“ doused with aggressive liquid

In the period from 05-11 June 2023, Stolpersteine were showered with an unknown liquid in several places in the city. The police and fire brigade are currently checking the „Stolpersteine“ in the city. They have already been able to identify several places where they had been doused with a liquid that attacks their surface. It must now be clarified how high the property damage is and whether the memorial stones need to be repaired or even replaced. Stolpersteine are a project of the artist Gunter Demnig. The stones are intended to commemorate the fate of the people who were deported and murdered during the National Socialist era. They are usually placed in front of the former place of residence of the Nazi victims and contain their names as well as the dates of birth and death. At the end of May, the 100,000th “Stolperstein” was laid in Nuremberg.

Source: BR24

Attack by group of neo-Nazis

On the evening of april 15th 2023, a man was attacked in a bar by a group of four neo-Nazis from the Schwandorf district. Around 10:30 p.m., the 22-year-old man was leaving the toilet of a bar when he was attacked by four people. As a result, he suffered injuries to his head, upper body and legs. The police arrested a 44-year-old woman and a 29-year-old man, the other two attackers were able to escape. According to police and media reports, the victim is of Afghan origin. As a counselling centre, we therefore assume that the motivation for the crime is racist. The attackers belong to the neo-Nazi group “Bollwerk Oberpfalz”, which appears several times in the Bavarian secret service report. The Mobile Counseling against Right-Wing Extremism (Mobile Beratung gegen Rechtsextremismus) told B.U.D. that the group consists of around 15 people, most of whom also appear in uniform clothing and, above all, are well networked in the right-wing rock scene. Unfortunately, we have not yet been able to establish direct contact with the person concerned in order to offer him support.

Source: Mittelbayerische Zeitung

Place of remembrance „DenkOrt Deportationen“ damaged

In the period from 22 May to 24 May, the „DenkOrt Deportationen” at the station square in Würzburg was damaged. The “Denkort Deportationen” is a memorial to the Jewish men, women and children from Lower Franconia who were deported to the extermination camps between 1941 and 1944. The memorial consists of several pieces of luggage made of stone, wood and concrete, which are supposed to symbolize the fate of the victims. One of these pieces of luggage was a bronze teddy bear, which was forcibly severed from the memorial and stolen. The police are looking for witnesses to the crime.

Just over a year ago, there were also anti-Semitic incidents at Würzburg’s Bahnhofsplatz. In 2022, B.U.D. reported on a counseling case in which an actress at Würzburg’s Mainfrankentheater was anti-Semitic insulted by passers-by during a performance at the train station. On several evenings, the theatre staged a play about Anne Frank. It was only after public pressure from press coverage that a security service was hired to protect the actress.

Source: police report

Racist threat with chainsaw

On Monday 22nd of May 2023 a 64-year-old threatens his neighbor and his family with a running chainsaw and threatens – with violent words – to use them. In addition, he repeatedly insults the neighbor in a racist way. Fortunately, there is no physical attack. The perpetrator is arrested by the police and taken to a hospital.

Quelle: Donaukurier

Dangerous bodily injury

On the night of 15th/ 16th of august 2022, a 23-year-old from Kötz racistly insulted a man at the Volksfestplatz in Günzburg. When the victim was a little later in a location on the market square in Günzburg, he met the perpetrator again. A verbal altercation ensued, in the course of which the perpetrator again racially insulted the person concerned. Subsequently, the perpetrator hit the victim with a glass and injured him.

In March 2023, B.U.D. learned of this attack and unfortunately has still not been able to establish contact with the victim. The perpetrator has now been sentenced to a fine of 120 daily rates of 50 euros each, a total of 6000 euros, for insult and dangerous bodily injury.

Source: Allgäu rechtsaußen

Racist insults and threats

On February 18th 2023, a woman stood on the street with her child and partner by the car to load things. A local resident walked slowly past them and stared at them with hostility. The victim asked if there was anything. As a result, the man became aggressive and approached her. The victim’s partner blocked his way and he insulted the victim and her partner. This was followed by another verbal altercation, which culminated in the man picking up an approx. 25x25cm paving stone, taking it out and threatening (through body language) to hit the partner of the victim on the head with it. He stopped and remained with the stone over the head of the partner of the person concerned. In this situation, an acquaintance came by with her dog, saw the scene and interfered. The man then dropped the stone back to the ground. The altercation continued, the man ran after the family, continued his racist insults. The child was in the immediate vicinity all the time. In the meantime, the victim had informed the police. When she gave her name, the resident ran directly to the doorbell sign to make sure how the name of the person concerned was spelled. Those affected reported the man, who was already known to the police, for insult, and a criminal complaint for threats will follow.

Source: Affected persons

Attack on journalist at conspiracy ideological demonstration on occasion of Munich Security Conference

On 18th of February 2023, a diverse conspiracy ideological spectrum gathered at Königsplatz in Munich on the occasion of the Munich Security Conference. Among others, the group “München steht auf” (“Munich stands up”), which was founded at the beginning of the pandemic in protest against the Corona measures, had called for the demonstration and now unites a wide spectrum of extreme right-wing and conspiracy ideological activists – with topics ranging from anti-vaccination to Putin solidarity. Well-known AfD functionaries, so-called “Reich citizens” and members of the “Free Saxons” also appeared at the demonstration.

While documenting the demonstration, a journalist was first verbally attacked by a participant, then the perpetrator tried to snatch the camera from him. After these attacks, the journalist decided to move away from the aggressive participant. When the victim turned around and started to walk away, the perpetrator pulled him to the ground from behind and knelt on his legs for a short time. Even after the assault, there was further harassment and filming of the journalist by those around him. The victim filed a complaint for assault and attempted robbery.

Source: Affected person

Racist attack by Passau AfD politician

On 28.03.2023, AfD member of the Bavarian state parliament Ralf Stadler posts a video on his social media channels that he recorded on a train ride from Munich to Passau. You can see how Stadler racially insults two people of color, accuses them of holding up the train and finally pushes one of the people off the train. The context of the situation is unclear. The video is being disseminated online by the extreme right and Stadler is being celebrated. This results to calls for vigilante justice and announcements of violence against refugees, PoC and migrants in the comment columns. The term “racism” hardly appears in the media. Instead, a lot of space is given to Stadler’s statement, whereby he gains interpretive sovereignty over the racist attack with his self-portrayal of “civil courage against two train disruptors” and stages himself unchallenged.

Source: BR