De-Radicalisation and Integration Legal & Policy Framework : Germany/WP4 country report

Abstract

Since 2015 at the latest, the threat of radical political violence has once again become highly present in Germany. With the sudden increase in the number of irregular migrants after the Syrian war and other conflicts in the Middle East, extreme right-wing forces have successfully tapped into latent xenophobic sentiments among the population and in mobilising masses against migration, Muslims and other minorities, creating a climate of fear and aggression that culminated with attacks on refugee homes in 2015-16. Alongside right-wing extremism, Islamism has repeatedly been at the centre of public attention on radicalisation ever since the 9/11 attacks in New York. However, apart from one serious terrorist attack in December 2016 on a Christmas market in Berlin, jihadist terrorism remains a rather latent threat in Germany...