Politically motivated crime in Germany last year reached its highest level since the government started tracking it more than 20 years ago
, with the greatest threat coming from people with far-right motivations, the country's top security official said Tuesday. Overall, Germany registered 60,028 politically motivated crimes in 2023. The government considers numerous acts as political including intent to hinder democracy and crimes aimed at members of certain ethnic, religious or other groups. Right-wing politically motivated crimes increased by 23% in 2023 to 28,945 cases, of which 1,270 were violent.
“We are a strong democracy, but our democracy is under pressure,” German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser told reporters in Berlin. The threat of political violence in the European Union was clear last week when the prime minister of Slovakia was shot in what the government called an assassination attempt. Many politicians in Slovakia blamed the heated political division there for creating the environment that led to the shooting.
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