Diversity and. If you just got it theres something menacing about the situation we dont want that here in stable. But scenes like this are 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 minting december 28th scene there was a clear sense of unease. They view the far right tendencies of the youngster as a threat to the otherwise peaceful district that out that it was allowed to be and they were 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 this. Many people find this still a youngster intimidating to us in their face but postings they claim to be harmless they invite people to approach them said we did. Come see us on can you tell us what you stand for these and you. Can get it where youve been told the recent protests will do if and im not going to tell to say nothing of why dont you have begged him from speaking you again lost or was finished the son. Of a little bit of that is ok im going. Iraq was enough we have nothing to say now go you know see recognizable faces covered in harms way when youre freezing goodbye. To. The man who tried to really an offer to buy shining his smartphone light into our camera is a figure familiar to us having a reasonable conversation is not his thing. Whenever the 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 shayla 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. He lay there 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 pastor hannah miles up and preaches each sunday is 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 before mentioned the people here in stalest say they feel frightened that the numbers are increasing this indeed they dress alike they wear black clothing and they march through our district also they dont say much but their presence that creates our nanny is discovering were shifted on their instinct just just what this still 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 17000. 00 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 theres the imei 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 the students often forget about it i want to but. 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. What do they have to fear here in st Louis Armstrong who looks for. 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 want to be around much if you like i said were pigeon fanciers. Someone calls out to him he calls him. He has a teardrop tattoo a widely recognized prison tattoo. An internet search turns up several hits including a Television Feature from 2016 this is one of them a guy from asm. I was 16 or 17 when i got out of prison i started working as a waiter in a strip bar. Much of copas knife has been characterized by crime and. The movie that 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. And why im here ill tell you why. Thats enough wrong. Question somebody else wants to talk but the others stop him before he starts. Mischief hearings and we hear the words rapist and slasher. Films. On a typical market day no trace of the vigilantes here. And. This guy young said they have to patrol here to maintain security nonsensical outer rubbish but. They just want to show off like the right wing party thats all it is the guns they want to intimidate people interesting to me is very peaceful 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. I want to excuse me do you have a minute do you know of a group called the sheila humans 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 in it but i did and it spread to wherever you go in every district theyre all over the place want your new home youre something 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 if you want to kick it is. The role of the church as i see it being is to create collections 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 play. When i was growing up in the eightys a popular slogan was make peace without weapons 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. And insanity. One man with insight into far right vigilante groups like this still a youngster is sociologist and Xander Heisler of the university of applied sciences indecl doff. And. Its Something Like a right wing mix. 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 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 they see. 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 they show several. At an anti islam demonstration in mention that better organized by brotherhood germany if we want to well beat you to death they challenge. You. On one of the clips shows the land attacking a counterprotest at a demonstration in desoto off in november 28th. He was arrested and fined. This same rashmi land his regularly marched with the state for the past 18 months. The essen 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. Are young arent ordinary citizens here for me at the core is a far right group that is loosely connected and to varying degrees supported by others outside of asms. At the same time members of the s. 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 will feel good to go until we pay a visit to hana a 20 minute drive from essen the state a young also mabel i sympathize is for demonstrations here in hand of the group calls itself the zug to all concerned citizens account to demonstrate to 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 color of a counter demonstrator being vandalized she filmed the incident on half over. I mean. The phone was damaged in this attack she reported the incident to the police its still under investigation. An internet search reveals far right pastings by hand at the jail until. That hear 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 2019 and to spur anti islam groups have gathered for a demonstration among them a several familiar faces men who march with the state a young as well as members of new lands brotherhood gemini. And of man i ask you a quick question we recognize you from sheila why youre here today and can you come and i was asking him and he said no comment why do you feel the need to be here he wont answer him we know you from why youre here today. For a walk thats all hes allowed to say. When. You heard what you just said leftist intimidation do you feel intimidated by the left. Everybody hears what they are. Why hes speaking for him conti give me an interview we dont give interviews hes a big thing for the brotherhood are for and so i knew the brotherhood are not above ability represent myself but you said wait what are your a visit. Can you know come and 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 why youre here today. For a walk thats all hes allowed to say. If. You heard what you just said leftist intimidation do you feel intimidated by the left. Everybody hears what they are. Why hes speaking for him conti give me an interview we dont give interviews here hes a big thing for the brotherhood are for and so i knew the brotherhood are not above it. How do you represent myself but you said what are your eva says. On social media hes much less reserved this says its time we germans made more use of our right to self defense. A security barrier separates the 275 right demonstrators from the counterdemonstration. Weve fought for human rights for decades everybody in the world has rights the right to lawsuits and it doesnt matter with green or blue or black goodness or double out our shots im angry and im furious and i could cry when i see whats happening. I never want to hear 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 carnival 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 offshore that area democratic the social services think they can take the law into their own hands and when they resent themselves as defenders of the. German people order for as specially against so called enemies of the people for an all mine and the when and the folks find a 4 game. Danger lives in a. Moment far right displays of howards the actual use of violence. You know im going on. The strong arm displays continue fishtail a young stem is straight that the streets apparently belong to them many residents have started avoiding the commercials and on thursday evenings. Instead hundreds of tendin event in the Lutheran Church with institutions around them a survivor of the nazi concentration camp auschwitz seems ive known for months weve been witnessing far right thinking and discriminatory behavior here and. It makes many of us angry. We are who in many if not people like luthier aster who know from your own suffering where fascism and racism lead could talk about the more compellingly and one against them. Darfur. We stood in line and waited for a number to be tattooed on our left arm. Yet. I usually see the number 1948. Names were disposed of we were merely numb then this would all go. As division around 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 middle and order s to better granted the selfstyled vigilante committees today i read grim reminder of those times yet. 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. But 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 positions or we refuse to be intimidated its in your interest. 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 premise 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 demand its not the ethnic minorities the migrants that threaten the peace in gemini its groups like this still a young smith this street munches they exclude people spread hate and threaten anybody who thinks differently. And. I shall ism is not an alternative. Dividing people into separate groups is no solution. Because. 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 one. Protestant see i have a history of tolerance in the said rice this was what was known as a confessing congregation one the to pose the nazis. This is ive given my reason yes its a tradition in this parish in the nazi era our parish stood on the side of the confessing church so 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 fears 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. I dont think it will get anywhere the way weve been going this is welcome to all of you whove joined tonights meeting there is 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 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 things. But did they really want to talk a brief flashback last week cheaply whistles what kind of statement was that no comment. It was this very man we tried to speak with months ago but what does 1st class creamy. Dont just be smiling which no comment with us there are no comment thank you for the why you assembling here doesnt matter then why you demonstrating or not demonstrating. We try again to talk to them at the meeting in the Church Without the camera but they didnt say anything. On. The meeting gets out of hand the suggestion is made that the church organize a follow up on this 1st attempt to engage with a young 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 spoken generalization sick to course order 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 over a bit and especially i hope it will happen well see i think it was a small but positive results from the seeming its lines i get to see is obvious phonies. But past him as a whole and maybe 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 the volume. Not many counterprotest as a present maybe people so the issue had been resolved. As it should have much this year i find it distressing that this Taylor Youngs are still a presence in the district. If immigrants 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 into eden but i also see that its difficult to deescalate the situation does it whats on the totality is i have the impression that the battle lines have been drawn promises deformed and often how to keep them dont want and i dont see any practical way of deescalating heinberg be deployed its difficult at the moment and its religious 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. Customizable 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. And its very encouraging to feel that were not alone in our mission theres a lot of support from other districts other churches and communities to mine shaft as a reason so we work closely with the Catholic Church and leave us off the bottom mostly mission and the 2 muslim communities here are also very interested in seeing peaceful coexistence continue. The church is also active in other cities thats very encouraging and empowering just as im fussy a boutique in this understand its but the fear remains that when they look down is eased the she will be back on the streets making their presence felt once again. Im going to. Look. Beyond the soviet unions secret plan. It took years before u. S. 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