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Schon wieder rechtsextreme Jugendgruppen: Neonazi-Teenager greifen LKA-Beamte in Berlin an

Nach einem Querdenken-Protest attackiert eine Gruppe junger Rechtsextremisten Staatsschutz-Beamte der Berliner Polizei. Von den 47 Personen Festgenommenen ist die Hälfte minderjährig. Tatort: Kaufland-Parkplatz. In unmittelbarer Nähe der Supermarktfiliale in der Rochstraße am Alexanderplatz kam es am Sonnabend zu Angriffen auf Beamte des Landeskriminalamts, wie der Tagesspiegel aus Polizeikreisen erfuhr. Eine größere Gruppe junger Rechtsextremisten hatte sich zuvor von einem Aufzug der Querdenken-Bewegung gelöst und grölte verfassungsfeindliche und rechtsextreme Parolen gegenüber Passanten. Zivile Beamte des Staatsschutzes hatten die Gruppe zuvor vom Hauptbahnhof auf verfolgt. Als die Einsatzkräfte schließlich wegen der Neonazi-Parolen eingreifen wollten, kam es zu den Angriffen, bei denen mehrere Polizisten leichte Verletzungen erlitten. Einer hinzugerufenen Einsatzhundertschaft gelang es schließlich, die jungen Rechtsextremisten auf dem Kaufland-Parkplatz einzukesseln. 47 Personen wurden festgenommen, fast die Hälfte von ihnen war minderjährig. (…) Nach Tagesspiegel-Informationen sind die Festgenommenen dem Milieu der rechtsextremen Jugendgruppen zuzuordnen, die seit vergangenem Sommer die Sicherheitsbehörden bundesweit beschäftigen. So befanden sich unter anderem Mitglieder der Gruppierung „Deutschnationale Front“ unter den Teilnehmern der Querdenken-Demonstrationen. Bei der Gruppierung handelt es sich um einer der zahlreichen neu entstandenen „Online-Kameradschaften“, deren Mitglieder sich jedoch bei Ereignissen wie Demonstrationen auch real vernetzen. Fotoaufnahmen zeigen außerdem sehr junge Anhänger von Fußballvereinen wie Energie Cottbus, Union Berlin und dem BFC Dynamo unter den festgenommenen Jugendlichen. Einige von ihnen sind aus Brandenburg angereist, unter anderem aus Potsdam-Mittelmark und dem Landkreis Dahme-Spreewald.

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Report: #Police #Killings Rose in the Five Years After #GeorgeFloyd’s Murder – #blm #polizeiproblem

An analysis shows how little has changed for Black victims of police violence in America. Five years ago today, George Floyd, a 46-year-old unarmed Black man, was murdered by Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, in Minneapolis. The harrowing footage of the murder—in which Chauvin kneeled on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes after a nearby store clerk alleged he tried to purchase cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill—sparked nationwide protests over police brutality against Black people, and the persistence of anti-Black racism more broadly. Chauvin was found guilty on all charges in the case and sentenced to more than 20 years in prison; three other officers who were also on the scene and failed to get Floyd help as he struggled to breathe were found guilty of federal civil rights violations and sentenced from 30 to 42 months in prison. But a new report from the New York Times, coupled with recent actions from the Trump administration, suggests that whatever progress appeared to come in the wake of Floyd’s murder was not lasting. A New York Times analysis published Saturday, based on data from the Washington Post and the database Mapping Police Violence, found that the number of police killings nationwide has risen every year since 2020—with Black people constituting a disproportionate number of the victims. Last year, for example, there were a total of 1,226 people killed by police, an 18 percent increase from 2019, the Times found. While most of the victims killed by police reportedly were armed, some, like Floyd, were not. Last year, 53 unarmed people were killed by police, compared to 95 in 2020, according to the Times analysis. Over the past decade, Black people have been killed by police at more than two times the rate of white people. (Native Americans were the racial group with the highest rate of police killings, according to the Times data.) The rates of police killings were higher—and have increased since 2020—in the redder states that President Donald Trump won in the last election; the bluer states that former Vice President Kamala Harris won, on the other hand, saw stabilized rates of police killings since 2020. The actions of the Trump administration do not inspire confidence that those numbers will decrease anytime soon. This week, the Department of Justice announced it was dismissing lawsuits and consent decrees against police departments in Minneapolis, where Floyd was murdered, and in Louisville, Kentucky, where police killed Breonna Taylor in March 2020.

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#Moldova extradites ‘#CommanderButcher’ neo-Nazi to US for planning mass #killings of #NewYork Jews – #terror

A neo-Nazi known as “Commander Butcher” is extradited from Moldova to the US for planning mass casualty attacks against Jewish New Yorkers. Michail Chkhikvishvili, a 21-year-old Georgian national, was arrested in July 2024 and charged with soliciting hate crimes and acts of mass violence. Chkhikvishvili is a leader of the Maniac Murder Cult, an international, violent extremist group, the US Department of Justice says. Chkhikvishvili promotes neo-Nazi white supremacist ideology and instructed others to commit violence for ethnic cleansing, including an undercover FBI agent, leading to his arrest. Chkhikvishvili instructed the agent to use arson, explosives, poison and beatings against “low race targets,” including Jews. One of his schemes involved having an assailant dress up as Santa Claus and hand out poisoned candy to racial minorities. Earlier this year, Chkhikvishvili told the undercover agent to poison Jewish schools and Jewish children in Brooklyn. He sent the agent step-by-step instructions about creating poisons and gases.

via timesofisrael: Moldova extradites ‘Commander Butcher’ neo-Nazi to US for planning mass killings of New York Jews

siehe auch: Georgian ‘neo-Nazi’ accused of plotting hate crimes in NYC. Michail Chkhikvishvili targeted American children, the government says, and planned to have followers dress up as Santa Claus and hand out poison-laced candy to racial minorities. A 21-year-old man from the eastern European nation of Georgia recruited fellow white supremacists to carry out violent attacks, including a plot to poison children in New York City by dressing as Santa Claus, prosecutors said Friday following his extradition from Moldova.  “The defendant is a neo-Nezi extremist leader who has spent years soliciting gruesome attacks from his followers,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Reich said at Michail Chkhikvishvili’s arraignment Friday morning.  Over a period of two years Chkhikvishvili, a leader of the international extremist group Maniac Murder Cult, also known as “MKY,” rallied those who share his ideologies to attack racial minorities, Jewish people, the LGBTQ community and journalists, according to a government detention memo.  A 17-year-old student acting on behalf of MKY and at least one other group killed one person and injured another before taking his own life at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee, in January 2025, the memo says. The shooter’s manifesto mentioned Chkhikvishvili by name and included references to MKY founder Yegor Krasnov, whose name the shooter said he would write on his own gun.  Chkhikvishvili, who calls himself “The Butcher,” distributed a manifesto called the “Hater’s Handbook” to MKY members and others, claiming he has “murdered for the white race” and encouraging others to commit violence and “ethnic cleansing” — specifically in the United States — via school shootings, using children to carry out suicide bombings, committing mass terror attacks and using vehicles to target festivals, parades and streets full of pedestrians. (…) In Telegram messages between the two, Chkhikvishvili told Welker he was working for an Orthodox Jewish family caring for a now-deceased family member in a rehabilitation facility. Chkhikvishvili sent Welker photographs of the patient in his hospital bed, the sentencing memo says, and bragged, “I get paid to torture dying jew // I think I almost killed him today actually // If he dies soon that’s killstrike on me.”; Georgian Man Extradited To US To Face Charges Related To Neo-Nazi ‘Murder Cult’. A Georgian national and alleged leader of a neo-Nazi group has been extradited from Moldova to the United States to face charges that he recruited people to commit violent crimes against Jews and other ethnic minorities in New York City, the US Justice Department said. Michail Chkhikvishvili, who goes by several aliases, including Commander Butcher and Mishka, was arraigned in federal court in New York on May 23 on multiple felonies. Prosecutors described Chkhikvishvili as a white supremacist who plotted the mass killing of children and others in minority communities using poison, suicide bombs, firearms, arson fires, and vehicle explosions. The 21-year-old from Tbilisi who was arrested last July in Moldova pleaded not guilty through his attorney, Samuel Gregory, who requested his client receive a psychiatric evaluation and be placed on suicide watch while in custody. Gregory did not return a message seeking comment, according to the Associated Press. Chkhikvishvili, described by prosecutors as the leader of the Maniac Murder Cult, recruited people, including on the Telegram messaging app, to commit violent acts to promote the group’s ideologies, including planning and soliciting a mass casualty attack in New York City, the Justice Department said in a news release. The Maniac Murder Cult, which also goes by several aliases, including Cult of Killing and MKY, is described as an “international racially motivated violent extremist group” that prosecutors said “adheres to a neo-Nazi accelerationist ideology and promotes violence against racial minorities, the Jewish community and other groups it deems ‘undesirables.’” Prosecutors said the group’s activities inspired multiple attacks and killings around the world, including a school shooting this year in Nashville, Tennessee, that left a 16-year-old student dead. (…) Chkhikvishvili distributed a manifesto titled the Hater’s Handbook to members of the group in which he said he had “murdered for the white race,” according to the Justice Department. The handbook encourages and instructs others to commit acts of mass violence and “ethnic cleansing.” After traveling to Brooklyn, New York, in June 2022, Chkhikvishvili provided detailed plans and materials such as bomb-making instructions to a prospective member of the group who was in fact an undercover FBI employee; Neo-Nazi death cult leader arrested over plot to poison Jewish children with Christmas candy. The leader of an eastern European neo-Nazi group has been extradited to the US from Moldova to face charges of soliciting hate crimes after allegedly instructing an undercover agent to distribute poisoned candy to Jewish children while dressed as Santa Claus. Michail Chkhikvishvili, 21, originally from Georgia, was arraigned Friday in Brooklyn federal court on multiple felonies including soliciting hate crimes and acts of mass violence. He pleaded not guilty through his attorney, Samuel Gregory, who requested psychiatric evaluation and suicide watch for his client. Prosecutors identified Chkhikvishvili, also known as “Commander Butcher,” as leader of the Maniac Murder Cult, an international extremist group promoting neo-Nazi accelerationist ideology and violence against racial minorities, Jewish communities and others deemed “undesirables.” The group’s solicitations, promoted through Telegram channels and a manifesto called the “Hater’s Handbook,” appear to have inspired multiple killings including a Nashville school shooting this year that killed a 16-year-old student, prosecutors said; Neo-Nazi cult leader who plotted NYC attack on minorities using Santa costume hauled to US for justice. The leader of the neo-Nazi “Maniac Murder Cult,” who plotted to attack New York City on New Year’s Eve using a goon dressed as Santa Claus, was hauled to the US to face charges — as the feds said his hateful screeds succeeded in radicalizing Americans into committing violence. Georgian national Michail “Commander Butcher” Chkhikvishvili, 21, inspired “multiple senseless killings” around the world, including the deadly Antioch High School shooting in January — where a radicalized ROTC cadet gunned down a 16-year-old teen girl in Nashville, according to a letter from the Justice Department Friday. Prosecutors said that the Nashville shooter, 17-year-old Solomon Henderson, had proclaimed in audio recordings before the attack that he was “taking action on behalf of MKY” and had explicitly mentioned Chkhikvishvili by name. The feds also said that Chkhikvishvili was connected to a Turkey knife attack where a crazed Turkish teen wearing Nazi paraphernalia livestreamed himself stabbing five outside a mosque in August 2024. Chkhikvishvili, who was arrested last year in Moldova, was extradited to the US on Thursday — and pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Friday in Brooklyn Federal court on multiple felony counts, including solicitation of hate crime. In a 22-page criminal complaint, prosecutors detailed Chkhikvishvili’s role as a leader and recruiter within the “Maniac Murder Cult,” a Russia and Ukraine-based neo-Nazi group that promotes violence against racial minorities, Jewish people and other so-called “undesirables.”; Hate Crimes and Planning Mass Casualty Attack in New York City Friday, May 23, 2025 Share For Immediate Release Office of Public Affairs Leader of White Supremacist Group ‘Maniac Murder Cult’ Recruited Others to Bomb and Poison the Jewish Community and Racial Minorities  Defendant Allegedly Planned Scheme to Distribute Poisoned Candy on New Year’s Eve Georgian national Michail Chkhikvishvili, also known as Mishka, Michael, Commander Butcher, and Butcher, 21, of Tbilisi, was extradited to the United States from Moldova on May 22, and will be arraigned in federal court in Brooklyn today. Chkhikvishvili was arrested in Chișinău, Moldova, in July 2024 in connection with a four-count indictment returned in the Eastern District of New York charging him with soliciting hate crimes and acts of mass violence in New York City. According to court documents, Chkhikvishvili is a leader of the Maniac Murder Cult, also known as Maniacs Murder Cult, Maniacs: Cult of Killing, MKY, MMC and MKU, an international racially-motivated violent extremist group. As alleged in the indictment, Chkhikvishvili recruited people to commit violent acts in furtherance of MKY’s ideologies, including planning and soliciting a mass casualty attack in New York City. “This case is a stark reminder of the kind of terrorism we face today: online networks plotting unspeakable acts of violence against children, families, and the Jewish community in pursuit of a depraved, extremist ideology,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “The Department of Justice will not tolerate hate-fueled violence, and we will pursue those who threaten innocent lives wherever they may be.”

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#Trump administration is minimizing white supremacist threat, officials warn – #terror

Coming changes at the state department follow pattern of moving resources away from programs that focus on preventing far-right violence Tess Owen Sat 24 May 2025 13.00 CEST Share US state department employees recently opened up their emails to find a PDF to their new “style guide”, which dictates what language and terminology they can and can’t use. According to this new updated guide, the term “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism”– “REMVE” or “RMVE” – was now banned, except in situations where they were legally compelled to use it. While style guide updates in government agencies that tinker with acronyms between administrations are not unusual, the document did not yet propose an alternative term for the threat from the violent far right. Current and former state department officials told the Guardian that this was just one reason why they are concerned about how seriously the Trump administration will take the ongoing threat from white supremacists at home and abroad. Over the last six years, the state department caught up to European partners by recognizing the transnational threat posed by the radical far right – after decades of laser focus on jihadist terrorism. In January, one week before Donald Trump returned to the White House, the state department took action against the white supremacist collective Terrorgram, designating it as a foreign terrorist organization and linking it to a shooting at an LGBTQ+ bar in Slovakia, a knife attack at a mosque in Turkey and a planned attack on energy facilities in New Jersey. It was the third “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist” group to ever face terrorist designation or sanctions from the state department. First was the Russian Imperial Movement in 2020, and later the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance in 2024. In addition to the new ban on using language to refer to the threat of white supremacists, last month Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, unveiled a plan for huge cuts at the state department, which would result in the elimination of more than a hundred offices and about 700 jobs – including those whose portfolios include racially motivated violent extremism. Among the offices on the chopping block is the Office for Countering Violent Extremism, or “CVE”, which works on identifying root causes of radicalization and extremism to prevent terrorist attacks before they happen. CVE began looking at international white supremacist terrorism around 2019. Now, that threat accounts for about a third of their work. Rubio said in his announcement of the plan that the current state department was “beholden to a radical political ideology”. The coming changes at the state department follow a pattern of moving resources away from programs that work on the threat of the far right since Trump took office. In March, the FBI scaled back an office that was focused on domestic extremism. The FBI’s joint terrorism taskforces, which investigated domestic and international terrorist threats, were redirected to assist in the president’s immigration enforcement operations. Meanwhile, offices at the Department of Homeland Security, similar to the state department’s CVE, which worked on threat prevention, including from the far right, have also seen cuts and funding for grants has been terminated.

via guardian: Trump administration is minimizing white supremacist threat, officials warn

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BKA-Präsident warnt vor Erstarken krimineller rechter Jugendgruppen – #terror

Junge Rechte sind stärker radikalisiert und zugleich besser vernetzt, warnt der Chef des Bundeskriminalamts. Dem zu begegnen sieht er als gesamtgesellschaftliche Aufgabe. Der Präsident des Bundeskriminalamts (BKA), Holger Münch, warnt vor einem Anwachsen krimineller rechtsradikaler Jugendszenen. “Seit etwa einem Jahr sehen wir vermehrt, dass sich sehr junge Menschen mit einer rechten Gesinnung weiter radikalisieren und sich in teilweise gut organisierten Strukturen zusammenschließen, um schwere Straftaten zu begehen”, sagte Münch den Zeitungen der Funke Mediengruppe.  Das Internet diene der rechten Szene zunehmend als Vernetzungsraum. “Radikalisierung, Rekrutierung und Mobilisierung finden über soziale Netzwerke und rechte Foren statt”, sagte Münch weiter. Die hohe Zahl rechtsmotivierter Straftaten und die Qualität der rechten Gewaltstraftaten sind seinen Worten zufolge eine “große Herausforderung” für die Sicherheitsbehörden. Diese begegneten der Szene mit hohem Kontrolldruck.

via zeit: BKA-Präsident warnt vor Erstarken krimineller rechter Jugendgruppen

siehe auch: Mehr “sehr junger” Neonazi-Gruppen: Vernetzung über Onlinedienste. Nach der Zerschlagung einer mutmaßlichen rechtsextremistischen Zelle mit 14- bis 18-jährigen Mitgliedern in Deutschland hat der Präsident des deutschen Bundeskriminalamts (BKA), Holger Münch, vor einem Erstarken krimineller rechtsradikaler Jugendgruppen gewarnt. “Seit etwa einem Jahr sehen wir vermehrt, dass sich sehr junge Menschen mit einer rechten Gesinnung weiter radikalisieren und sich in teilweise gut organisierten Strukturen zusammenschließen”, sagte er. In diesen Strukturen würden sie “schwere Straftaten” begehen, sagte Münch Zeitungen der Funke Mediengruppe (Samstag). Als Vernetzungsraum diene den jungen Rechten zunehmend das Internet, sagte der BKA-Chef. Radikalisierung, Rekrutierung und Mobilisierung finde über Onlinedienste und rechte Foren statt.

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Bayerischer Landtag – Stadler steht vor Aufhebung seiner Abgeordneten-Immunität – #LockHimUp

Die Generalstaatsanwaltschaft München will gegen den AfD-Politiker ermitteln. Über die Aufhebung der Immunität entscheidet der Landtag. Der AfD-Parlamentarier Ralf Stadler steht erneut vor der Aufhebung seiner Immunität als Abgeordneter des bayerischen Landtags. Die Generalstaatsanwaltschaft München hatte die Aufhebung beantragt, wie der Landtag bestätigte. Üblicherweise wird ein solcher Antrag gestellt, um ein Ermittlungsverfahren einleiten zu können. (…) Stadler selbst sagte, es gehe um einige seiner Aktivitäten auf Social Media. Er habe etwa einen Social Media Post weitergeleitet, in dem eine Bürgergeld-Empfängerin aus der Ukraine Auskunft über ihre Bezüge gibt. Er sehe darin keinen Rechtsverstoß, weil die Frau die Angaben selbst öffentlich gemacht hatte. Stadler, seit 2018 im bayerischen Landtag, war bereits mehrmals durch Äußerungen aufgefallen, die von Politikern anderer Parteien in die Nähe des Rassismus gerückt worden waren. Wegen des Fälschens eines Fotos mit Landtagspräsidentin Ilse Aigner (CSU) war bereits zuvor seine Immunität aufgehoben worden. Er hatte in der Folge einen Strafbefehl über 60 Tagessätze akzeptiert. Unter anderem wurde ihm auch die Waffenbesitzkarte entzogen, wogegen er ohne Erfolg geklagt hatte. Stadler ist vom Landtagspräsidium mehrmals für Zwischenrufe gerügt worden.

via sz: Bayerischer Landtag Stadler steht vor Aufhebung seiner Abgeordneten-Immunität

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Ältestenrat entscheidet gegen AfD – SPD gewinnt Streit um größeren Fraktionssaal

Der Saalstreit zwischen den Fraktionen der SPD und AfD ist entschieden: Die Sozialdemokraten dürfen ihren bisherigen Fraktionssaal im Bundestag behalten, wie der der Ältestenrat entschied. Die AfD kündigt rechtliche Schritte an.Die SPD hat das Rangeln mit der AfD um den größeren Fraktionssaal gewonnen. Obwohl sie mit 120 weniger Abgeordnete als die 151 Abgeordnete zählende AfD hat, behält die SPD mit dem Otto-Wels-Saal im Reichstagsgebäude ihren bisherigen Fraktionssaal. Das hat der Ältestenrat im Bundestag mehrheitlich entschieden. Die AfD erhält demnach den kleineren ehemaligen Fraktionssaal der FDP, die nicht mehr im Bundestag vertreten ist.Der Parlamentarische Geschäftsführer der SPD-Fraktion, Dirk Wiese, sprach von einer “sachlich-fachlich begründeten Entscheidung”, die in einem demokratischen Verfahren getroffen worden sei. Schließlich müsse die SPD-Fraktion als Teil der Regierung regelmäßig Mitarbeitende der Ministerien als Gäste im Fraktionssaal unterbringen. Das führe zu einem größeren Platzbedarf. Zudem sei in der aktuellen schwarz-roten Koalition “wichtig, dass wir in der Nähe der CDU/CSU sind”. Deren Fraktionssaal liegt gleich nebenan. (…) Für die SPD war auch der Name des Saals ein Argument. Otto Wels begründete als SPD-Chef 1933 in einer historischen Rede das Nein seiner Partei zum Ermächtigungsgesetz der Nationalsozialisten, mit dem die Demokratie zerstört und den Nazis alle Macht übertragen wurde. “Die Vorstellung, dass ausgerechnet die gesichert rechtsextreme AfD künftig in diesem Raum tagen sollte, war für meine Fraktion und mich und im übrigen auch für die Familie von Otto Wels unerträglich”, sagte Wiese. (…) Die Linke reagierte ebenfalls. Der von der AfD “inszenierte, überflüssige Raumstreit auf dem Niveau Große Kindergartengruppe” sei nun mit deutlicher Mehrheit endlich entschieden, sagte der Linken-Politiker Christian Görke. “Für die AfD waren in den letzten Wochen Statusfragen um Raumgrößen wichtiger, als sich um die Probleme der Menschen zu kümmern.”

via tagesschau: Ältestenrat entscheidet gegen AfD SPD gewinnt Streit um größeren Fraktionssaal

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