Group calling itself ‘Last Defence Wave’ had recruited other teens online and promoted ‘extremist terrorism’
German police have staged early morning raids against an alleged far-right “terrorist” cell on suspicion of attacks against asylum seekers and political enemies, arresting five teenage suspects, federal prosecutors have said.
The operation on Wednesday targeting a neo-Nazi group calling itself “Last Defence Wave” marked the latest high-profile action against groups Germany says are working to destabilise its democratic order.
Four of those arrested – named only as Benjamin H, Ben-Maxim H, Lenny M and Jason R, in line with German privacy rules – are suspected of membership of a “domestic terror organisation”. The fifth, Jerome M, is accused of supporting the group.
Two of the suspects are accused of attempted murder and aggravated arson. All five are German citizens between the ages of 14 and 18.
What is it with GenZ being nazis?
In Germany it isn’t just Gen Z. Ten years ago there were also thousands of arson and other attacks on refugee shelters or families assumed to be refugees living in flats.
In the 00s a Nenonazi terror group likely supported by the interior intelligence went around murdering “foreigners” in their shops and planting bombs.
The 90s are infamously called “baseball bat years” because of extensive Nazi violence, beating up people in the streats, arson, bomb attacks, murdering people.
In 2022 there was a bomb attack on the party office of the Left Party in a town in western Germany. Police wanted to stop the investigation and only with strong pressure went to investigate again.
Between 2010 and 2020 there was a series of arson and other attacks in Berlin, among other things a local politician luckily escaping death with his family as his car was torched in the garage. Again the police and prosecutors showed to have ties to the terrorists and investigations remained lackluster despite local activists and the press knowing the likely suspects.
In 2019 a Neonazi tried to massacre Jewish people in a synagogue in Halle and instead went to a kebab store to murder two people as the door of the synagogue was locked.
In 2016-2019 there was multiple scandals with police officers stealing ammunition and funneling it to Neonazi terror groups…
This has nothing to do with Gen Z. Fascism and violent Neonazism are an issue in all generations in Germany.
Not just Germany
It has never been easier for extremists to reach the most vulnerable people.
It’s what eroding the education system over decades, a pandemic, fake news and the rise of AI does to a generation.
Lack of positive structure and nihilism