Left-wing extremist Lina E.has been found guilty in a German court of leading a series of violent attacks on neo-Nazis. The sprawling trial has sparked controversy and fears of extremism driven by leftist ideology.

The male defendants were greeted on Wednesday with a huge round of applause, many of them waving and smiling to friends and relatives in the courtroom. They also then screened their faces from photographers with folders, one of which had the message "Free All Antifas" taped (in English) on its cover. When Lina E. herself was brought in a few minutes later, the applause was even louder and longer, with virtually the whole of the gallery that wasn't press standing up.

Hell yeah

  • an_engel_on_earth [he/him, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    Hansen said that the evidence showed that the group was not merely planning street-fighting methods, but targeted assaults aimed at seriously injuring or even killing their victims. "Terrorism is defined as using politically motivated violence to spread fear and horror either within the general population or within a certain group of people," he said.

    nazis deserve to be terrorized you jackass

    • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      No, you see we have learned the lessons of our past. Namely that we must officially ban explicit Nazi symbols and ideology so that they can more artfully bed into the state, police, and security services. :germany-cool:

    • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Ha I had that one teed up too but for a different reason

      "Terrorism is defined as using politically motivated violence to spread fear and horror either within the general population or within a certain group of people,"

      :thonk:

      • huf [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        the mere existence of nazis is terrorism then. how strange that they're not going after them... how strange.

        • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          let me just search the internet a bit...ah

          "She Called Police Over a Neo-Nazi Threat. But the Neo-Nazis Were Inside the Police.

          Death threats linked to police computers and the discovery of far-right chat groups in police departments across Germany have fed concerns about far-right infiltration."

          :curious-marx:

          edit: not paywalledcw: some mentions of racism/nazism plus some hilarious BS about how "le west germany actually fixed policing from the ground up in the 50s" instead of what they actually did which was to just keep on trucking with the nazi fucks still there, pretty good otherwise