Elaborate rescue after jumping into the Danube - men from right -wing extremist group!

Elaborate rescue after jumping into the Danube - men from right -wing extremist group!

On a hot weekend in Ulm, a missed jump into the Danube caused excitement. Younger people often jump from the pedestrian footbridge between Friedrichsau and Offenhausen to cool off. But in this case the jump for a man ended unhappily, which is why he injured himself when he jumped. The rescue workers had to do their best to free the victim from the predicament, and at the same time there were "incidents" during the rescue operation. As the Augsburger Allgemeine injured man has been associated with a right -wing extremist group.

In the region, one more and more people are encountered in extreme ideologies that often act in hidden. A new research collective called Recherche Ulm has adopted the information about right -wing extremist activities in Ulm and the surrounding area. The members of the collective who act anonymously published their online blog in January 2023. Your goal is to document the machinations of extremely right groups and people in the region, such as the Schwäbische The focus is currently on the AfD, especially after the advent of secret meetings of right -wing extremists and party members.

right -wing extremism in Germany

The situation is not only worrying in Ulm. All in Germany, an alarming tendency towards increasing willingness to violence shows in the right -wing extremist scene. One example is the alleged neo-Nazi group, which attacked a self-governing meeting point in Brandenburg in May this year. The head of the right-wing extremism department at the Counter Extremism Project, Alexander Ritzmann, warns that such groups also act strongly offline, as from a report of the ZDF emerges. In 2024, right -wing extremists reached a new high. The worrying thing about it: recruitment is increasingly being carried out via social media that are specifically aimed at young people.

The Brandenburg campaign alliance reports on the increasing number of young right -wing extremists, which are organized in chat groups, for example, and are planning violent attacks. The content that is distributed via platforms such as TikKok and are specifically causing fears from migration and loss of identity are particularly worrying. Such developments illustrate that right -wing extremist structures in Germany are deeply anchored and grow, and they are not only a danger to democracy, but also significantly influence the social climate in regions such as Ulm.

In times when society is polarized, initiatives such as research collectively are of great importance in order to set an example against right -wing extremism. The demonstrating 10,000 people against the AfD in Ulm show how strong the resistance is among the population. It remains to be hoped that such movements will also arrive in the youngsters and that they will occur in a time of uncertainties and the uphelds for an open, democratic society.