“The Kimantas Revolution” – a new terrorist wing of the far right in Germany

By Ahmed Lamloum:

German police announced the arrest of six German men on Monday (October 1st) on suspicion of belonging to an extreme right-wing group that attacked a group of foreigners in the city of Kimantas, which witnessed riots in the first half of last September.

The detainees, between the ages of 20 and 31, formed a group called the “Kimantas Revolution” to carry out violent and armed attacks against foreigners. The federal prosecutor said in a statement that the group was apparently planning to launch an attack during German Unity Day celebrations next Wednesday.

The prosecution said members of the group attacked a number of residents of the foreign “Kimantas”, using bottles and electric shock devices, and damaged them during the riots in the city.

Sources in an Islamic community told German newspaper Der Spiegel that there have been more than 27 attacks against Muslims in Germany since the beginning of 2018, including attacks with Molotov cocktails at mosques, warning that these attacks are increasing.

Since the establishment of the “Pigeida” movement in Dresden, the capital of Saxony, by activist Lutz Bachmann in late 2014, the far-right movement in Germany is witnessing a strong presence in the political scene in the country.

Taking advantage of the crisis of resorting to citizens from countries facing conflicts in the Middle East for European countries, as dozens of demonstrations have been organized against the presence of foreigners, especially Muslims in Germany.

In the election of the Bundestag in 2017, the Alternative Party for Germany, the far-right political party, won 13 percent of the vote, winning a historic victory for Germany’s far-right.

However, the movements of members of the “Kimantas revolution” again raise concerns about the right-wing trend toward confrontation. In March 2018, eight people from a right-wing group calling itself the Free Group were accused of terrorism and attempted murder in a series of bombings targeting refugees .

Members of the Free Group, seven men and a woman, aged between 20 and 40, modified firecrackers bought from the neighboring Czech Republic and carried out five attacks, one Syrian refugee was injured.

Last June, the Munich court issued a final verdict on the only survivor of an extreme right-wing cell called the NSO cell, which killed 10 people, most of them Muslim immigrants.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel commented on what the cell had done, that her country was ashamed of these crimes.

Merkel has repeated her remarks about the far-right confrontation in the country from time to time, and is due to visit the city of Kimantas next November, but it may face a poor reception. The city’s residents are deeply distressed by its liberal policy on refugees, which led to the arrival of one million and 200,000 asylum seekers. Germany since 2015.