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Germany’s top security official wants easier ways to track right-wing extremist financing | AP News

By Thomas A. Smith

BERLIN (AP) Germany s top security official said Tuesday that she aims to make it easier to trace right-wing extremists financing and plans to set up an early recognition unit to detect far-right and foreign disinformation campaigns as early as possible.

Interior Minister Nancy Faeser s proposals follow large protests against the far right in Germany in recent weeks. They reflect growing concern after a report said extremists met to discuss deporting millions of immigrants, including some with German citizenship, and that some members of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, whose support has doubled since the country s 2021 election, were present.

Germany s domestic intelligence agency says the number of far-right extremists has been rising. In 2022, it reached 38,800, with 14,000 of them considered potentially violent. The agency s head, Thomas Haldenwang, said the numbers are believed to have risen again last year.

via apnews.com