Letnik 9/2, september 2007 - Slovenska vojska

TERORISTIČNA GROŽNJA V NEMČIJI – NEMŠKI POGLED IN ANALIZA GROŽNJE
for supporters to emerge who are willing to use violence in Islamist terrorist
networks. These can subsequently evolve into what are known as “home-grown
networks” 12 . While no reliable figures exist yet on the membership of Islamist
terrorist networks in Germany, around 32,100 people have joined the 28 active
Islamist organizations 13 . In light of the German threat situation, the 45 non-Islamist
foreign organizations which are either extremist or pose a security threat must also
be mentioned. These organizations have around 25,320 members or supporters 14 .
Their conduct in Germany is essentially dictated by developments in their
respective countries of origin. These predominantly left-wing extremist Turkish
groups still aspire to the revolutionary overthrow of the existing social order and
the establishment of a Socialist or Communist system in their countries of origin.
Foreign nationalist organizations – which are again predominantly Turkish groups
– should also be mentioned in this context, along with extremist Iranian opposition
groups, which continue to seek a fundamental change to the existing governance of
Iran. Asian separatist organizations in Germany have also been focusing primarily
on strengthening their financial basis by collecting donations.
However, in addition to foreign extremist and terrorist groups in Germany and their
cross-border relations, violent left and right-wing extremist groups in Germany also
play a role in the German threat assessment, along with their terrorist offshoots.
Documents from German security authorities show that violent left-wing extremists
are currently having an impact on internal security. These groups had a total
membership of approx. 5500 people at the end of 2005 15 . However, this scene is
generally in a phase characterized by a limited capacity to mobilize, combined with
a search for new strategies. Attacks by individual autonomous groups occasionally
cross over into terrorist violence, such as the “militant group” (mg), which has
been under investigation by the Federal Prosecutor General since 2001 for up to ten
arson attacks 16 . However, established and hierarchical left-wing terrorist structures
in the mould of the former Red Army Faction (RAF) and the Revolutionary Cells
12
Ziercke, Jörg, Recht und Sicherheit. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der polizeilichen Praxis [Law and Security.
Possibilities and Limits to Police Practice], speech held at the judicial press conference of the German Federal
Constitutional Court [Bundesverfassungsgericht], Karlsruhe, 2006, p.3, http://www.bundeskriminalamt.
de/pressemitteilungen/hintergrund/vortraege/060705_vortrag_praesident_justizpressekonferenz.pdf.
13
See German Federal Ministry of the Interior, Verfassungsschutzbericht 2005, preliminary version, Berlin, 2006,
p.201.
14
Ibid, p.243.
15
Ibid, p.140.
16
Federal Criminal Police Office [Bundeskriminalamt], offene Tatkomplexe [Open Criminal Investigations],
militante gruppe [militant group] (mg), Meckenheim, 2006. Website: http://www.bundeskriminalamt.de/fahndung/personen/tatkomplexe/militante_gruppe.
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