Incendiary Informants: Did German Intelligence Fuel Far-Right Extremism?
A secret paper written by senior police officers paints a disastrous picture of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency. It suggests that the service may have actually strengthened the country’s far-right scene through its large network of far-right informants.
By Maik Baumgärtner, Sven Röbel and Holger Stark
SPIEGEL: Intelligence Agency Hindered Murder Probe
In 2006, the neo-Nazi terror cell National Socialist Underground murdered a man working in an Internet café. One of the witnesses later turned out to be an employee of a German intelligence agency. Now SPIEGEL has learned that the agency tried to block the murder investigation.
By Maik Baumgärtner, Hubert Gude and Holger Stark
Neonazi seri cinayetleri: Alman güvenlik makamlarının kriz durumu
Alman İç İstihbarat Teşkilatı-Federal Anayasayı Koruma Teşkilatı derin bir krizde. Türk göçmenlerin ölümüne ve ağır şekilde yaralanmalarına neden olan aşırı sağcı terör hücresi “Nasyonel Sosyalist Yeraltı” soruşturmaları ile bağlantılı olarak ciddi hataların yapıldığı ve gizli dokümanların imha edildiği ortaya çıktı. Şimdi, sadece İç İstihbarat Teşkilatı Başkanı değil, iki eyalet iç istihbarat teşkilatı başkanı daha geri çekildi. Skandal ise sona ermişe benzemiyor.
Gazeteport için yazdım!
Almanya’da Selefi avı
Alman polisi ülkede etkisini arttıran şiddet yanlısı Selefiler’e karşı harekete geçti. Binlerce polisin katıldığı operasyonlarda, Selefiler’in evlerinde arama yapıldı, dernekleri kapatıldı ve haklarında soruşturma başlatıldı.
Gazeteport için Maik Baumgärtner ve Deniz Esen
Trial of ‘the madman’ Breivik ignores a virulent ideology
The trial of the right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik has been a field day in the international media, with Breivik’s ice-cold bearing and callous statements playing to the headlines. For many of the journalists inside the courtroom, however, the first couple of days in Oslo were disappointing in terms of actual information. Read more…
Writing for The National, together with the excellent investigative journalist Lisa Bjurwald!
Abandoned in Fight Against Racism – Anti-Nazi Groups Struggle To Find Funding
While Germany tentatively prepares a bid to ban the far-right NPD party, anti-racism groups complain that they are chronically underfunded and sometimes even face obstruction from the authorities. They say their fight to stop young people from becoming extremists is more important than getting rid of the NPD.
For Spiegel Online. Read more…
La jeunesse résistante
Julien Mechaussie und ich stellen in der Sendung „Accents d’europe“ auf „Radio France Internationale“ (RFI) das Buch „Die Leipziger Meuten – Jugendopposition im Nationalsozialismus” vor. Der Beitrag kann hier nachgehört werden.
Neue Ausgabe von EXPO erschienen
Die neue Ausgabe (1/2012) des schwedischen Magazins EXPO ist erschienen. Im Heft geht es u.a. um die kommende Fußball-Europameisterschaft in Polen und der Ukraine.
Ich kommentiere in dieser Ausgabe, wie Medien und Behörden in Deutschland mit der Mordserie des „Nationalsozialistischen Untergrunds“ (NSU) umgehen.
A paradox of hate: right-wing Israelis ally with neo-Nazis
Extreme right-wing European groups, many with an anti-Semitic past, see Israel as the defender of western civilisation against Islam.
Writing for The National, together with the excellent investigative journalist Lisa Bjurwald
Konferens mot “islamisering” i Berlin
Närmare 150 anhängare till partiet Pro-tyska medborgarrörelsen (Bürgerbewegung pro Deutschland) och representanter från belgiska Vlaams Belang deltog under helgen i en “anti islamiseringskonferens” i Berlin.