Berlin: Members of the German extreme right have committed about 20,000 political crimes in 2009, reported the Secretary of the Interior Thomas De Maizire on yesterday.
This is the greatest figure since 2001, when De Maizi ?re began keeping records of the political crimes.
According to deputy of the Die Linke (the left) party, the figures demonstrate that the government's campaigns to combat the extreme right have failed.
The parliamentary also criticized De Maizi ?re for comparing neo-Nazi groups with left-wing organizations. The government of Christian-Democrat Angela Merkel has criticized anti-fascist initiatives many times, and now we need a broad alliance against fascists, told Jelpke to media.
According to Jelpke, criticisms against those demonstrations only increase the alleged political crimes committed by German left-wing activists.
