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MV bans right-wing extremist organization
The “National Socialists Rostock” is a right-wing extremist community in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. She has been observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution for years. Now the country is taking action and sending its investigators. The ban follows.
The Ministry of the Interior of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has banned the right-wing extremist association “Nationale Sozialisten Rostock” (NSR). In this context, four apartments and workplaces in Rostock, Güstrow and in the Wismar area were searched by around 50 officials from the State Criminal Police Office in the early morning, said a ministry spokeswoman. According to an estimate by the Interior Ministry, the number of members is in the double-digit range.
According to the information, the “National Socialists Rostock” have been a right-wing extremist comradeship that has been active for more than ten years. Accordingly, they were mentioned for the first time in 2008 and have been mentioned continuously since then in the report for the protection of the constitution. The association also appears under the names “NSR” and “Aktionblog”. The sub-organization “Baltic Corps” also belongs to it.
The “NSR” and its martial arts arm “Baltik Korps”, founded at the beginning of 2019, are, according to the opinion of the Interior Ministry, against the constitutional order and the idea of international understanding. “As a result, I have banned comradeship,” said Interior Minister Torsten Renz from the CDU and announced: “I will continue to fight right-wing extremism in the future, the current ban stands for zero tolerance!”
According to the investigators, “NSR” and “Baltik Korps” have built up a wide-ranging network within the right-wing extremist scene that also extends beyond national borders. For years they have been the defining structure of the right-wing extremist scene in Rostock. Individual martial arts training units of the “Baltic Corps” had previously been publicly announced in order to recruit new members.
An “open training” on April 27, 2019, for example, took place in the scene object “Thinghaus” in Grevesmühlen (Northwest Mecklenburg), which underlines the networking of the group within the right-wing extremist scene. According to Renz, the ban on the “NSR” is the third ban on associations in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after the ban on the “Mecklenburg Action Front” on May 20, 2009 and the “Schwarze Schar MC” on December 13, 2013.
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