President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution warns of the willingness to use violence in right-wing extremism

President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution Sinan Selen has warned of an increasing willingness to use violence by right-wing extremist groups. In the public hearing in the Bundestag's parliamentary control committee, he said that the intelligence services were seeing "an extremely worrying development" in this area.

Selen added: "In the area of ​​right-wing extremism (...) we are observing a development towards action-oriented, violent right-wing extremist groups." Internationalization is also taking place, facilitated, among other things, by social media. In addition, the perpetrators are getting younger and younger. Selen cited disruptions and attacks on CSD events as an example and referred to the groups' connections to the rocker milieu and martial arts.