Deaths/killings

Code:: S2
Key Area:: Racist violence - Hate Speech Statistics
Strand(s):: Statistics

10/01/2012 - 15:59

Short Answer

Qualitative Info

Official data:

In 2009, five cases of attempted homicide; two of them with a xenophobic motivation and one xenophobic murder were recorded by the police.
In 2010, no homicides were recorded but six cases of attempted homicide also two of them with a xenophobic motivation.

Unofficial data show a far higher number of deaths/killings:

According to the anti-right-wing organisation CURA Opferfond rechte Gewalt, operated by the Antonio Amadeu Foundation, 182 people have been killed by perpetrators with an extreme right-wing, racist or anti-Semitic motivation between 1990 and 2011.

Source:

Federal Ministry of the Interior (Bundesministerium des Innern, BMI) (2011), Verfassungsschutzbericht 2010, http://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Broschueren/2011/vsb2010.pdf?__blob=publicationFile (accessed on 10.01.2012).

Erkol. A./ Winter, N. (2011), 182 Todesopfer rechtsextremer und rassistischer Gewalt seit 1990, 23.11.2011, http://www.mut-gegen-rechte-gewalt.de/news/chronik-der-gewalt/todesopfer-rechtsextremer-und-rassistischer-gewalt-seit-1990 (accessed on 10.01.2012).

Numbers of cases

Official or estimates

Exemplary cases

Groups affected/interested

Type (R/D)

Extremism - organised Racist Violence, Anti-migrant/xenophobia, Anti-semitism, Islamophobia

Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas

External Url

Situation(s)

Library

Indicator history

Germany - 2011

Deaths/killings

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