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Deaths/killings

Code:
S2
Key Area:
Racist violence - Hate Speech Statistics
Strand(s):
Statistics
25/01/2013 - 17:34
Short Answer

Yes.

Qualitative Info

Official data:
In 2010, no homicides were recorded but six cases of attempted homicide also two of them with a xenophobic motivation [1]. In 2011, two cases of homicide and five cases of attempted homicide were recorded [2].

Unofficial data show a far higher number of deaths/killings:
According to the anti-right-wing organisation CURA Opferfond rechte Gewalt, operated by the Antonio Amadeu Foundation, 182 people have been killed by perpetrators with an extreme right-wing, racist or anti-Semitic motivation between 1990 and 2011 [3].

 


 

Source:

  1. Federal Ministry of the Interior (Bundesministerium des Innern, BMI) (2011), Verfassungsschutzbericht 2010, http://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Broschueren/2011/vsb2010.pdf?__blob=publicationFile, Accessed on 10.01.2012.

  2. Federal Ministry of the Interior (Bundesministerium des Innern, BMI) (2011), Entwicklung der politisch motivierten Kriminalität im Jahr 2011: http://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/DE/2012/05/politisch-motivierte-kriminalitaet-2011.html, Accessed on 09.01.2013.

  3. Erkol. A./ Winter, N. (2011), 182 Todesopfer rechtsextremer und rassistischer Gewalt seit 1990, 23.11.2011, http://www.mut-gegen-rechte-gewalt.de/news/chronik-der-gewalt/todesopfer-rechtsextremer-und-rassistischer-gewalt-seit-1990, Accessed on 10.01.2012.

Numbers of cases 2
Official or estimates Official data; Inofficial data suggest far higher numbers
Exemplary cases
Groups affected/interested
Type (R/D) Extremism - organised Racist Violence, Anti-migrant/xenophobia, Anti-semitism, Islamophobia
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