![Germany: right-wing terrorism triggers new calls for ban on far-right parties
Calls for a comprehensive ban on neo-Nazi organizations have been given fresh impetus following revelations that a far-right terror cell in all probability was responsible for a series of immigrant murders across Germany.
On Monday, the interior minister of the German state of Bavaria, Joachim Herrmann, said it was time for a new attempt to ban the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany, or NPD. Herrmann called the party “dangerous” and a “threat to the constitution.”
Dieter Graumann, the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, told the DPA news agency that banning the NPD was “absolutely essential.”
“The NPD avails itself of party privileges to enormous advantage. It uses the parliamentary platform to spread its poison and is being subsidized by taxpayers’ money,” said Graumann.
The chairman of the Green party, Cem Özdemir, also said it was time to “seriously consider an NPD ban.”
“We need to talk about the NPD and far-right radicals becoming hegemonical in many parts of Germany; in particular, in the east of the republic,” he added.
Renewed calls for a ban on neo-Nazi organizations came as the far-right terrorist group, the “National Socialist Underground” (NSU), were accused Monday of being behind two bomb attacks in Cologne. [via Deutsche Welle, euralmanac]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lunx90C6Tc1qjj3lpo1_400.jpg)
Germany: right-wing terrorism triggers new calls for ban on far-right parties
Calls for a comprehensive ban on neo-Nazi organizations have been given fresh impetus following revelations that a far-right terror cell in all probability was responsible for a series of immigrant murders across Germany.
On Monday, the interior minister of the German state of Bavaria, Joachim Herrmann, said it was time for a new attempt to ban the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany, or NPD. Herrmann called the party “dangerous” and a “threat to the constitution.”
Dieter Graumann, the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, told the DPA news agency that banning the NPD was “absolutely essential.”
“The NPD avails itself of party privileges to enormous advantage. It uses the parliamentary platform to spread its poison and is being subsidized by taxpayers’ money,” said Graumann.
The chairman of the Green party, Cem Özdemir, also said it was time to “seriously consider an NPD ban.”
“We need to talk about the NPD and far-right radicals becoming hegemonical in many parts of Germany; in particular, in the east of the republic,” he added.
Renewed calls for a ban on neo-Nazi organizations came as the far-right terrorist group, the “National Socialist Underground” (NSU), were accused Monday of being behind two bomb attacks in Cologne. [via Deutsche Welle, euralmanac]
