German government sets up neo-Nazi database
23.05.12
23 January 2012
The German government has responded to revelations of neo-Nazi murders by the Zwickau terrorist cell by centralizing and expanding the security authorities, although there is growing evidence that they are part of the problem.
At the beginning of November last year—just two weeks after it was revealed that Uwe Mundlos, Uwe Böhnhardt and Beate Zschäpe had committed a series of racist murders, bombings and bank robberies, about which the police and intelligence agencies supposedly knew nothing—Federal Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich (Christian Social Union, CSU), tabled a ten-point plan to expand the security authorities.
On 16 December, the so-called “Joint Defence Centre (GAZ) against right-wing extremism” in Cologne began its work, bringing together representatives of all the intelligence services and police representatives from the federal and state administrations.
Last Wednesday, Frederick announced another “milestone,” the building of a composite database with information from over 40 police forces and intelligence agencies about some 10,000 violent right-wing extremists. “This database is a very valuable and useful addition to the Joint Defence Centre,” said Frederick, who expressly thanked the Presidents of the Federal Criminal Police, Jörg Ziercke and of the Federal Office for Constitutional Protection (as the secret service is called), Heinz Fromm.
Source: World Socialist Web Site