In the opinion of Saxony's Interior Minister Armin Schuster (CDU), left-wing extremism has been trivialized in Germany for too long. In contrast, the Saxony State Criminal Police Office (LKA) has conducted numerous successful investigations in recent years, he told the German Press Agency. "A change of course is not necessary in Saxony and we welcome the tone set by the new federal government. Previous governments could have had the same strength." However, Schuster did not want to speak of a new quality of left-wing extremism. "I would rather say that it has a new position on the radar screen."
"Completely inappropriate treatment" of terrorists
He cited the attack on Berlin's energy infrastructure at the beginning of the year and the "completely inappropriate treatment" of third-generation RAF terrorists such as Daniela Klette, Burkhard Garweg and Ernst-Volker Staub as evidence of this. Schuster was alluding to the fact that the relevant investigations are not being conducted by the Federal Public Prosecutor General. Klette had received numerous expressions of sympathy and recently spoke from custody at the Rosa Luxemburg Conference in Berlin.
"There are rarely groups that go underground and do not become radicalized," said Schuster, referring to the activities of the so-called Hammer Gang around Johann G., who is now on trial at the Dresden Higher Regional Court. In any case, the fact that the Federal Public Prosecutor General regularly commissions the experts in Saxony with investigations speaks for the work of the Saxon LKA.
