Left-Extremist Endeavours

Further increase in acts of
violence
Violence in donation
rackets
2. Criminal Offences / Acts of Violence
Also in 1999, the willingness of individual extremist foreigner
organizations to use force threatened the internal security of the
Federal Republic of Germany. For the first time since 1996, the
number of acts of violence committed by foreign extremists increased
again: 391 acts of violence were recorded (1998: 258);
this amounts to an increase by about 51.6 per cent. The total
number of criminal offences went up by about 7.6 % to 2,536
(1998: 2,356).
The increase in acts of violence is, for the major part, due to the
actions taken by the supporters of the "Kurdistan Workers’ Party"
(PKK) after the capture of their leader Abdullah ÖCALAN and his
transfer to Turkey on 15 February and after the pronouncement
of the death sentence passed against him on 29 June.
Acts of violence were again triggered by fund-raising campaigns
of extremist Turkish and Kurdish organizations and by in-fighting
among such organizations. In 1999, too, acts of violence committed
by foreign extremists involved numerous cases of serious
bodily injury and homicidal attempts.
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