Left-Extremist Endeavours

Overview of Acts of Violence and Other Criminal Offences
with Proven or Suspected Extremist Foreigner Background *)
*)
1998 1999
Acts of violence
Homicide 1 1
Attempted homicide 5 7
Bodily injury 66 83
Arson 5 101
Causing a detonation by explosives 2 3
Breach of public peace 36 103
Illegal restraint (deprivation of liberty) 9 20
Robbery/blackmail 134 73
Total 258 391
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Other offences:
Criminal damage to property 141 317
Coercion/threat 125 303
Other offences **)
1,832 1,525
Total 2,098 2,145
Total number of offences 2,356 2,536
The figures are based on data provided by the Federal Office of
Criminal Police (Bundeskriminalamt - BKA)
(as of 04.02.2000).
This overview includes both committed and attempted offences.
Every offence was counted only once. For instance, if a case of a
breach of the public peace was committed in concomitance with
bodily injury, only the breach of the public peace is shown in the
statistics. If several criminal offences were committed, only the
more serious offence was counted.
For the major part: violations of statutory prohibitions under the
Act regulating the Law of Public Associations (Vereinsgesetz),
most of which were committed by supporters of left-extremist
Kurdish and Turkish groups.
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