German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has banned another right-wing extremist organization.
On Wednesday morning, police searched 26 apartments of 39 members and rooms of the association “The Art Community – Germanic Faith Community for Essential Life” in twelve states, the Ministry of the Interior in Berlin announced.
The ban on the association, which is attributed to the ethnic settler environment, had been planned for more than a year. The decisive factor here were the findings of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (domestic secret service).
In a statement, Faeser described “The Species Community” as a “cult-like, deeply racist and anti-Semitic association.” The minister also justified her decision with the interests of the child.
She said: “This right-wing extremist group has attempted to create new enemies of the Constitution through disgusting indoctrination of children and young people.”
According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the ban also applies to all sub-organizations of the movement, which has approximately 150 members, according to security authorities. This included so-called “associations”, “guilds”, “circles of friends” and an association called “Familienwerk”.
According to the information, searches were carried out in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Brandenburg, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia.
Last week, Faeser banned the elite neo-Nazi group ‘Hammerskins Deutschland’. The minister said that the ‘species community’ was no less dangerous than the ‘Hammerskins’, especially because of the ‘manipulative, indoctrinating upbringing of their children’ and the dissemination of corresponding writings.
To justify the ban, her ministry stated that the settler movement spread a worldview that violated human dignity under the guise of a pseudo-religious Germanic belief in gods. The central goal is the preservation and advancement of one’s own ‘species’, which can be equated with the National Socialist concept of ‘race’.
The Office for the Protection of the Constitution separately mentions settlement attempts by right-wing extremists in its current annual report. The report states that the aim of these movements is primarily to “preserve the Germans”.
‘Germanness’ is defined primarily with reference to the ethnic concept of the nation in the sense of the ethnic ‘blood and soil’ ideology. (sda/dpa)
Soource :Watson
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