Diversity and. It is there something menacing about the situation we dont want that here instead of i it seems like this is not unique to essen similar groups have formed in many of the german cities vigilantes who claim them maintaining law and order because the police no longer do. I the 1st time we met with founding members of the count in this moment in december 28th seen there was a clear sense of uneasiness. They view that the far right tendencies of this day youngs as a threat to the otherwise peaceful district that was oh well ill give them a really loud and noisy and they turned up on mass all dressed in black on time. And then they sort of surrounded us took photos and made videos called out to us made all that noise. It felt really threatening. Many people find the state a youngs intimidating thats in their face but postings they claim to be harmless they invite people to approach them said we did. Because its on can you tell us what you stand for these and you. Can get it where youve been at all of the recent protests will do if hes in an argument to say anything of why dont you forbid him from speaking you again yes get lost or very few nish the son. Of a little bit of the im going to. It was enough that we have nothing to say now go you know see recognizable faces covered in harms way when youre freezing goodbye. Like the man who tried to ruin our fatigue by shining his smartphone light into our camera is a figure familiar to us having a reasonable conversation is not his thing. Whenever the shade a youngster turned out the countermovement also demonstrates founded by a group of local residents its now supported by members of unions Political Parties the local Business Community and churches. He he im speaking here today on behalf of the Lutheran Church because i believe its crucial that the church does not stay silent the daily youngs claim there are vigilante groups marching for Resident Safety but i think they stir up fear and insecurity and they threaten the peace in our district. And i want to hold a citizens meeting in their district all including the shayla young ones who are willing to talk with us. The church in which has to have them as a whole and preaches each sunday its called the church of peace and she considers the name her mission she believes that the far right group is dividing society with their marches. If you will for mention of people here and say they feel frightened media the. Numbers are increasing. They dress alike they wear black clothing and they march through our history course they dont say much but there are presents that claim and so on and on yes and discovering were shifted on the instinct just just what the steel a young stand for why they demonstrate is never expressed in public they behave as if theyre out for an innocent stroll but their agenda is rooted in far right ideology their true intentions are revealed on the internet postings like these a typical of the group. Xenophobia racist nationalistic. In reality they are the ones out of place in this peaceful district with its 17000 residents where the crime rate has been decreasing steadily for many years and still is i believe the sale is like a village within the city of s. And a lot of. The residents associate strongly with the district once its lively and very diverse if you wish but i my malts of people shop at the market held 3 times a week and they like to be outside in cafes or on the banks of the horror as people from all backgrounds and social classes see you hear all sorts of languages and that contributes greatly to the districts character that idea. But the black clad figures you anybody different from them as a threat to their idea of a perfect gemini history should we try again to engage them in conversation Business Office were going to talk to them on it but you know. A lot of them one of them decides to Say Something thats right no prisoner you want to insure no one bothers or women and children. For the us what do they have to fear here and steve for the reaction the loop hole has to be what about the stuff happening in other parts of s and you think theyre all safe and friendly districts youre living in a fantasy world. Do you think steel is dangerous you know not when were around which you feel like i said were pigeon fanciers. Someone calls out to him he calls him coca he has a teardrop tattoo a widely recognized prison tattoo. And internet search turns up several hits including a Television Feature from 2016 this is one of them i knew a guy from asm. I was 16 or 17 when i got out of prison and i started working as a waiter at a strip bar much of coke is nice has been characterized by crime in. The movie he was convicted over and over and no fewer than 30 times for promoting prostitution thats also for Violent Crimes he spent a total of 17 years in prison things. This man wants to make the district safe but you know why im here ill tell you why. Thats enough wrong. Going to somebody else wants to talk but the others stop him before he starts to go near this sure incident we hear the words rapist and slash. Stay down a typical market day no chases the vigilantes here. And. This guy young said they have to patrol here to maintain security nonsensical utter rubbish but. They just want to show off like the right wing party thats all it is their guns they want to intimidate or evil and shift them to misery peace or theres no you know like. Crime rates or anything you would never hear that someone has been shot or anything like that so i think its a very Peaceful Place to be or to live it. But i want to have a minute do you know of a group called the sheila young ones who marched through town and says the evenings. Yes ive heard of them also seen them here all frightened and we wonder whats behind it what do they want to protect us from we feel safer if they werent around here ill admit im afraid of them. But i did and it spread to wherever you go in every district theyre all over the place and your nickname your survey come here from other districts to know theyre brazen and the groups keep getting bigger and more threatening the door to. Local residents have planned a Public Meeting in the church of peace they want to kick it is. The role of the church as i see it for being is to create connections to promote peace in the district. To come into contact with the people and bring the old message of the church and the bible to life hes leaving to bring in jeff when i was growing up in the eightys a popular slogan was make peace without weapons and i think its very relevant again now establishing this peace approaching one another not dividing the Community Living together despite differing views living and letting live but also seeking a commonality and mutual acceptance is if you accept the insanity. One man with insight into far right vigilante groups like this still a youngster is sociologist Alexander Heisler of the university of applied sciences indecl doff. And i think its Something Like a right wing mixed. That a mixed scene means that the core grew out of a typically violent and right wing hooligan scene. And various structures that are not essentially political are mixed into that like martial arts practitioners bouncers bikers people who have similar criminal or criminal backgrounds who come together with organized far right extremists. Wouldnt it is for that reason that in Extremism Research we use the term far right mixed with full force when the when the. Scene. This daily you are also part of a network theyre closely connected to the selfstyled brotherhood germany which originated in nearby dissolute. And is the acknowledged head of the group on the internet hes written about a day of retribution this facebook posting his since being deleted we come across videos taken in september 2900. 00 they show several at an anti islam demonstration in mention organized by brotherhood germany if we want to well beat you to death they challenge. One of the clips shows me land attacking a counterprotest at a demonstration indecl doffing nov 28th. He was arrested and fined. This same rational and has regularly marched with the state for the past 18 months. The s. And Police Department is concerned about the situation in. Police chief frank rich to estimate cities had to Deploy Police more than 100 times to restrain members of the far right group of people who used them for young arent ordinary citizens here for at the core is a far right group that is loosely connected and to varying degrees supported by others outside of absence from his nose. At the same time members of the as and group participate in socalled walks organized by groups in other towns or the state Security Services know about their contacts to far right extremists or we of course want to gather as much information as possible so the Police Presence at demonstrations is not just for keeping order theyre also carefully monitoring whats going on and trying to determine what we have to watch out for in the future all of us from some of the group. We pay a visit to have a 20 minute drive from essen the stay young school so mabel i sympathise is for demonstrations here in hand of the group calls itself the zug to all concerned citizens account to demonstrate it shows us where the far right assemble she doesnt want to get too close she was attacked recently. After one of the much is organized by the socalled concerned citizens she witnessed the car of a counter demonstrator being vandalized she filmed the incident on half over. The phone this damaged in this attack she reported the incident to the police its still under investigation. And internet search reveals far right pastings by hand the vigilantes. But here their opponents won out after 7 months of weekly marches in february 2020. The far right scene announced they would no longer be holding books in hanna. Late summer 2900 induce book auntie islam groups have gathered for a demonstration among them a several familiar faces men who march with the state a youngs as well as members of the lands brotherhood gemini awkward and of a man i ask you a quick question we recognize you from sheila why you here today. Can no comment i was asking him and he said no comment why do you feel the need to be here he wont answer because the as we know you from y. Here today. For a walk thats all hes allowed to say. Even if you have what you just said leftist intimidation do you feel intimidated by the left. But heres what. One must be going for him cant he give me an interview we dont give interviews hes the king for the brotherhood of friends and hes a brotherhood are not above it then how do you represent myself but you said what are your 8 percent. On social media hes much less reserved this says its time we germans made more use of our right to selfdefense. A security barrier separates the 275 right demonstrators from the counter demonstration. Of how we fought for human rights for decades everybody in the world has rights the right to lawsuits and it doesnt matter with these green or blue or black or goodness or double out our shots im angry and im furious and i could cry when i see whats happening. I never want to you know myself say i didnt know what was happening. Somewhat by chance we saw something during the 2900 carnival when this truck appeared we took pictures with the phone later the con of all said theyd been deceived the truck had been registered by a family but in the procession it was unexpectedly carrying a young. Band on the back they revealed their true face the german word for tick is used by the far right to describe people who support leftist and green politics this is clearly incitement to violence. The threats are more concrete on the internet someone wrote knowledge is power and i know for instance where certain people live and work and what kind of car they drive so to make trouble this is. Always dangerous when people with far right off the terrio antidemocratic social services think they can take the law into their own hands and when they present themselves as defenders of the german people its employed as specially against socalled enemies of the people in the online and the folks find of. Danger lives and its. Far right displays of our actual use of violence. On. The strong arm displays continue this tale a young stehman straight that the streets apparently belong to them many residents of started avoiding the commercials and on thursday evenings. Instead hundreds of tended event in the Lutheran Church with and stiffish around them a survivor of the nazi concentration camp auschwitz. For months weve been witnessing far right thinking and discriminatory behavior here in. It makes many of us saying 3. Who in many if not people like musea aster who know from your own suffering where fascism and racism lead could talk about the more compellingly and one against the. Darfur. We stood in line and waited for a number to be tattooed on our left arm. Yet for i received the number 1948. Names were disposed of we were merely numbers dont know. That this division ran a reads from the book she wrote about her experiences in the nazi era in the 1930 s. It was hitlers socalled brown shirts that took over the streets on the pretext of establishing law and order s to better run and the selfstyled vigilante committees today are a grim reminder of those times. We were in german occupied poland. With that post as the support Diversity Group also draws parallels between hitlers thugs and the need far right. No one should never lose sight of what could happen again at any time but i wouldnt say were afraid we go out and defend our position we refuse to be intimidated its an interesting. They want to prevent the far right turning violent as happened in the 1930 s. The horrors of the nazi regime must never be repeated. With that in mind the churches have organized ecumenical prayers for peace. We see that hes cant be taken for granted we want to take action of course for us christians prayer is also taking action but we want to do our part so that people in our district can live together in peace. The christians here i didnt its not the ethnic minorities the migrants that threaten the peace in germany its groups that they steal a young smith their street munches they exclude people spread hate and threaten anybody who thinks differently. Oh lism is not an alternative. Dividing people into separate groups is no solution. It can all be. Anyone who thinks that way is a victim of demagogues who are really interested in their own power. We are indeed visible were all different but were all one. Were sisters and brothers and as humans we are what i have. Purchased and see i have a history of tolerance in the said rice this was what was known as a confessing congregation one the. Depends the nazis. This is a good mind reason yes its a tradition in this parish in the nazi era our parish stood on the side of the confessing Church Although there was certainly a lot of argument and discussions but they did take the stand before. An unambiguous position but also a willingness to engage in dialogue theyre placing great hopes on the citizens meeting held in the church of peace the purpose is to discuss the fear is aroused by far right marches through the district to the surprise of many people members of the far right group also turn up will dialogue be possible and im impressed and very happy that so many people have come. Here i dont think well get anywhere the way weve been going this is welcome to all of you whove joined tonights meeting theres enough room here for every view. The knife the discussion last 3 allies the meeting took place shortly before the cave at 19 lock down the prevailing view is that the state a youngster make people uncomfortable that they themselves feel unjustly treated were just Walking Around just taking a stroll i was. So everyone in this room is talking about the steel youngs but none of you have had the guts to talk to us or to discuss thing was it did they really want to talk a brief flashback last week cheaply whistles what kind of statement was that comment. It was this very man we tried to speak with months ago was my 1st what does 1st class screaming dont you speak my language no comment there are no comment thank you for that why you assembling here doesnt matter then why are you demonstrating or not demonstrating. We try again to talk to them at the meeting in the. Without the camera but they didnt say anything. The meeting gets out of hand the suggestion is made that the church organized a follow up on this 1st attempt to engage with a youngster has not gone so well. Oh. Should be a different issue when a month its difficult when people dont follow the rules of discussion. That was obviously the case here when people were booed and people spoke in generalisations it t. V. Course of water that made things stressful on me of course the best obviously mapped about there but the suggestion at the end that we meet again perhaps in a smaller constellation is a good start to me of work and i hope it will happen well see what i think it was a small but positive results from the same thing its linus and it seems obvious phonies. But past amounts of wind may be too optimistic after the meeting the weekly strollers continue and no ones willing to talk. This was one of the last evenings demonstrations were permitted before the cave in 1000 looked down with of all of them. Not many counterprotest as a present maybe people so the issue had been resolved. As a sort of mission this year the time i find it distressing that his daily youngs are still a presence in the district. If you know guns and it makes me happy that so many people are willing to take a stand to meet and talk about the problems before the moon or sweden but i also see that its difficult to deescalate the situation does it with so much that hopes with the if i have the impression that the battle lines have been drawn problems if one can often how to go or didnt and i dont see any practical way of deescalating heinberg reach the point its difficult at the moment and its reality so its like. That then the lockdown prevents public gatherings this is where the far right group usually assembles at the end of march theres no sign of them its quiet in the district. Passed a muslim once ministry is severely hampered by the lockdown shes also troubled by the fact that far right groups in germany a spreading conspiracy theories about covert 19 on the internet but shes encouraged by the interfaith response. Its a movie to see a movie and its very encouraging to feel that were not alone in our mission and as i said also theres a lot of support from other districts other churches and communities and killington of the mine shaft as it is in so we work closely with the Catholic Church and leave us off the biden mostly mission and the 2 muslim communities here are also very interested in seeing peaceful coexistence continue. Our church is also active in other cities thats very encouraging and im towering but as im fussy a boutique in this auction its but the fear remains that when they look down is eased the still a young sweetback on the streets making their presence felt once again. Something is brewing. Bunker busting is inside. She is a 100. 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