feeling safer in israel than in france that just shows how crazy the situation is but the french democracy itself is not under attack from terrorism and the danger for french democracy is the foreigners you know the danger for german democracy is right wing populist well 1st of all you ve got to see the connection between all these processes in the sense that when you see the rise of the right and the way it affects people on the ground i mean these are connected in that in that aspect that does you know pose a threat to the markets around the long term i think you just have a very narrow point of view without you know sort of looking at the outside knowing historical you know process isn t and understanding how what s the deal. and now mix of such of such developments are you know in the sense that this guy you know we re talking of the lone wolf is there is that a phenomena that we can still say is relevant or not but he he wasn t he didn t come out of nowhere you know even if it was
core of the roots of this problem and this is where it needs to start allan according to the interior ministry there are some 24000 right wing extremists in germany at the moment of whom they say 50 percent are potentially violent how do you think the authorities do need to respond. would you agree that they re not doing enough or would you say actually. they ve got this under control well they obviously don t have it under control and you can really probably never do enough. they do a lot i mean we never hear or rarely hear about the many many plots foiled that don t come to fruition don t even you know and they are these things happen all the time in the muslim side on the on the rightwing extremist side the police do a lot of good good stuff but the point and the point is that there s never going to be complete safety ok so you say after these attacks the synagogue is the safest
place in germany probably but you know this christmas market is coming up you know the berlin christmas market is going to be well protected but what about i don t know where somewhere in southern germany where they haven t you know cotton don we are going to experience more attacks from muslim extremists from white wing extremists terrorists they re going to happen there s no way in the world you can protect against this. because of us that s a there s an ongoing discussion here in germany that was prompted by the decade long series of murders by a right wing cell from eastern germany about whether the security services and the police are as the german say blind in the right meaning not cognizant enough or interested enough in violence from the right wing and too preoccupied with violence from islamists and or the left wing would you say that is the case and is it
something that you think the authorities are now becoming more vigilant about i d be very cautious in saying that is the case right now it seems that in the past especially i think another thing you didn t mention is the former president of the the intelligence agency responsible for monitoring right wing as well as you know slam a sort of left wing groups that he now turns out to be quite far in the right and you wonder you know how good was he about making sure the right wing was really being monitored i will say that there s been a change even in the last year or so if you see somebody like haas the was always talking about interior ministry interior minister sorry was always going on about islamist terrorists and that he now is the 1st one to say this is you know the the biggest the scrapes germany and that there is really a need to sort of move resources over to be sure that you know that keeping track of the right wing terrorists shani this attack occurred in an eastern german ci
you also surprised or was this in a sense a disaster waiting to happen here in germany well that s an interesting question because yes i was shaken by it far more than i expected i have to say and in a way yes immediately it s a shock because also it s you know kapoor it s a day that it s quite it s the holiest of the year that you can you know you can have as a jew even if you re not an observant jew it s just a very special day and then the 1st response is of course shock but then immediately soon after follow the idea that actually i m not too surprised and that s where the anger comes and that s where the rage comes or even followed by someone because it is to be expect that unfortunately it is to be expected. and as i said in my opening words the central council of jews in germany has said that it sees a new type of right wing extremism on the rise the opening statement i read off by you would appear to suggest that you don t agree. well i don t