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Documentation.

We raise awareness about right-wing, racist, and anti-Semitic violence and document related attacks in Bavaria.

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Making right-wing violence visible.

Strengthening social awareness.

Often times, the misanthropic motives of an offence are not recognised by the environment and individual authorities. The consequences of the assault are ignored or played down; sometimes, victims are even expected to shoulder some of the blame. The offenders are the only ones who are responsible for their deeds.

That is why we feel it is our duty to strengthen social awareness on the extent and consequences of right-wing violence. With our work in the field of public relations and by hosting events, we aim to add the victim’s perspective to the societal discourse.

In addition, we document incidents of right-wing, racist, and anti-Semitic violence in Bavaria in our chronicle. The aim is to provide independent statistics that depict the actual extent of right-wing violence. As a basis for this, we use the shared recording criteria of the VBRG.

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Chronicle

 

The basis of our chronicle is built on incident reports, contributions from various cooperation partners, as well as regular assessments of newspapers, police reports, and online sources.

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Criteria of recording

 

The classification of incidents for B.U.D.’s statistics is based on fixed common criteria established by the umbrella organisation VBRG and follows the nationwide police definition system for “politically motivated crime.”

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Incident statistics

 

to provide independent statistics that depict the actual extent of right-wing violence. In general, the extent of right-wing violence in Bavaria must be considered significantly higher.

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Righ-wing murders in Bavaria

Since 1950, 61 people have been murdered in Bavaria due to far-right violence and terror. Alongside many other initiatives, we too strive to contribute to the remembrance of those who were killed.

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The offenders are the only ones who are responsible for their deeds. The victims deserve our solidarity and support.

A chronicle of right-wing violence.

The Bavaria-wide chronicle is based on incident reports, notifications from various cooperation partners as well as on regular evaluations of newspapers, police reports and internet sources. Furthermore, incident accounts from those seeking advice can also be included here, should they wish to do so.

The chronicle is incomplete. It only includes incidents of far-right violence in Bavaria that have come to the attention of B.U.D. The same criteria for recording as those used for the statistics maintained by B.U.D. apply to the chronicle. Furthermore, insults, graffiti, and simple property damage can also be included in B.U.D.’s chronicle if there is reason to believe they were motivated by right-wing ideologies and if they indicate a certain development of right-wing structures.

Incidents of far-right violence, where the victims do not wish for publication, will not be made public in this chronicle. However, all recorded cases of far-right violence will be included in our annual statistics.

Besides the Bavaria-wide B.U.D. chronicle, you can find a detailed collection of all incidents of right-wing assaults, activities and discrimination reported in Munich at www.muenchen-chronik.de (German only; translates to “The Munich Chronicle). The Munich Chronicle is a joint project of FIRM, a.i.d.a. and BEFORE. In addition, there is a statewide monitoring of antisemitic incidents by RIAS Bayern. The corresponding chronicle from RIAS Bayern can be found here.

Note: The chronicle does not aim to provide a chronological overview, as it often takes several months or even years before certain incidents of far-right violence come to our attention. Therefore, the chronicle is sorted by the date of entry. However, the corresponding date of the incident is provided within each chronicle entry. This highlights how long it can sometimes take for us to learn about individual incidents.

We make every effort to translate all our content, including reports on incidents of right-wing violence, into English. However, due to limited resources, some updates may not be translated at all. We appreciate your understanding.

“singing” of extreme right-wing slogans

04.03.2024 |

In recent weeks, there have been several incidents in which right-wing slogans were sung to the song “L’amour toujours” by Gigi D’Agostino. The slogans were spread on 8th of february 2024 by the „rural youth Hohenfurch“ at the carnival parade in Landsberg am Lech and on 24th of february 2024 by an unknown group of people in a restaurant in Höchstadt a. d. Aisch.

Back in January 2024, there were similar scenes in a discotheque following the AfD party congress in Greding. In particular, the AfD members of the state parliament Benjamin Nolte and Franz Schmid were involved. Schmid has been elected as the new state chairman of the Young Alternative (JA) Bavaria, the extreme right-wing youth organization of the AfD.

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Criteria for recording far-right violence

The categorisation of incidents for B.U.D.’s statistics is based on fixed common criteria set by the umbrella organisation VBRG and follows the national police definition system for „politisch motivierte Kriminalität“ – politically motivated crime – (PMK).

According to this system, a crime is considered politically motivated “if, considering the circumstances of the offence1 and/or the offender’s views, there is indication that said offence (…) was committed against a person

  • because of their assumed or actual political position and/or views and/or commitment;
  • nationality, ethnicity, skin colour;
  • religious affiliation, world view;
  • social status, physical and/or mental disabilities or impairments;
  • sexual orientation and/or sexual identity;
  • or outer appearance;

and if there was thus a causal connection between the offence and any of the above and/or the offence was directed at an institution or an object in this context.” (Bundeskriminalamt 2016: Definitionssystem Politisch motivierte Kriminalität [Definition system for politically motivated crimes], p. 5).

Footnote 1 emphasises: “When considering the circumstances of the offence, the victim’s perspective needs to be included, besides other aspects.”

Accordingly, the B.U.D. statistics record:

  1. offences that aimed to or succeeded in causing persons physical harm;

  2. vandalism and arson if these indirectly aimed to harm a specific group of persons;

  3. Coercion and threats under sections §240, 241 StGB, or when these have significant consequences for the victim.

if the injured parties, witnesses (or the police) attribute right-wing motives to the the offence and/or the circumstances of the offence.

The B.U.D. documentation differs from the definition of politically motivated crimes as stated above in two key aspects: for one, B.U.D. documentation includes threats, coercion and severe vandalism. At the same time, the victim’s perspective plays a central role in the documentation of right-wing violence by B.U.D.

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Statistics on Far-Right Violence in Bavaria.

B.U.D. stellt im Frühjahr 2024 erstmals Zahlen für in Bayern (außer München) erfasste rechte Angriffe vor. Dieses Monitoring arbeitet mit unseren Erfassungskriterien rechter Gewalt, die (versuchte) Tötungen, Körperverletzungen, Brandstiftungen, Bedrohungen und massive Sachbeschädigungen mit einer rechten Tatmotivation zählen. Diese Erfassungskriterien entsprechen den gemeinsamen festen Kriterien des Dachverbands VBRG und orientieren sich am polizeilichen Erfassungssystem der politisch motivierten Gewalt – rechts (pmK-rechts).

  1. Statistics on attacks 2023

Aufgrund fehlender Ressourcen konnte B.U.D. 2023 kein tatsächliches bayernweites Monitoring umsetzen und daher auch keine umfassende Jahresstatistik erstellen. Stattdessen wurde für die vorhergehenden Jahre jeweils eine Jahresbilanz veröffentlicht.

  1. Annual Report 2022 (.pdf)
  2. Annual report 2021 (.pdf)
  3. Annual report 2020 (.pdf)
  4. Annual report 2019 (.pdf)
  5. Annual report 2018 (.pdf)

For more information and material on nation-wide statistics, please contact our umbrella organisation, VBRG e.V , or the respective homepages of counselling centres in the individual federal states [Länder].

Generally speaking, the number of reported incidents of right-wing violence are merely an indicator of the actual extent of right-wing violence, as we have to assume that a high number of cases remains unreported in this field of offences.

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Our offer.

We support you in different ways.

Counselling.

We counsel victims, their friends and families as well as witnesses of right-wing, racist and anti-Semitic violence after an assault.

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Support.

We support victims and their families practically and politically depending on their individual needs.

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You can report any incidents that you have experienced or witnessed yourself. Your report helps us make the extent of right-wing, racist and anti-Semitic violence in Bavaria visible;

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