the judicial reappraisal of the murder of Walter Lübcke begins When, this Tuesday could be the expectations of the justice system is hardly larger. The higher regional court of Frankfurt will have to solve a case, the marks on the human Gray also, in the meantime, a social turning point. Walter Lübcke was in the night of the 2. June 2019 on the terrace shot. As the neo-Nazi, Stephan E. was taken two weeks later, was expressed by the Federal Minister of the interior is the Conviction that in Germany, the biggest danger from right-wing extremism out. That was a few days after E. s first confession.
An incision is meant the murder also for the long-run debate over the radicalization of social discourse. Because of the Kasseler President of the government had been due to its commitment to refugees, for years the target of right-wing hate campaigns. His assassination seemed like the proof that from words to deeds can be. You don’t need to assume the same of an inevitability; but as the extreme right-wing Milieu of the suspected killer and his assistant came into focus, it was clear once again, what is the ascendant extreme Right feel since the refugee crisis and how fluid the boundaries between you and people that refer to themselves as “Civil”.
among the Latter, the AfD also after the murder yet. She protested that extremist violence “to condemn, in any Form whatsoever”, had taken part in the agitation against Lübcke, however. Your talk of a “population exchange”, of “illegitimate state” and “resistance”, also provides the breeding ground for violence, denies the party.
Without a doubt, he takes violence seriously
Walter Lübcke was the first politician to have been killed since the Terror of the RAF. E. had originally testified that he did not want him for his refugee policy to punish. He later recanted the confession and accused Markus H. to have Lübcke accidentally shot. The earlier statements, however, remain usable; on whose credibility neither the Federal court nor the Federal Prosecutor’s office in doubt. From them stating that it was E. also wanted to create a General climate of fear of arbitrary attacks.
the violation of individual legal interests, in addition to a “whole-of-government importance of the murder, according to the Federal court of justice”. For all the highlighting Lübckes as a politician, this Dimension should not be overlooked. It makes it clear what it’s all about right-wing extremists. Alone in the recent time, there are plenty of examples of that. “Civil war-like conditions” from before floated up to the group “Revolution Chemnitz”, as well as the in February the failed terrorist cell “Reich citizens” and known neo-Nazis.
unlike his predecessor, the President of the Federal constitutional protection, Thomas Haldenwang, is in no doubt that he takes the right-wing threat seriously. After the murder of Lübcke, according to hall and Hanau, he can’t allow something else, however. The German security authorities must be for the benefit of, and held that since the negligence in dealing with the NSU and much has been done. It took you long enough. Even today, some constitutional protectors seem to have the seriousness of the situation but he did not understand – and the extremists at a new peak of 24 100 registered law.
