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Capitol riot puts spotlight on âapocalyptically mindedâ global far-right
By Katrin Bennhold and Michael Schwirtz New York Times,Updated January 24, 2021, 5:36 p.m.
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Jürgen Elsässer, the editor in chief of the far-right magazine Compact, in Falkensee near Berlin.LENA MUCHA/New York Times/File 2020
BERLIN â When insurrectionists stormed the Capitol in Washington this month, far-right extremists across the Atlantic cheered. Jürgen Elsässer, editor of Germanyâs most prominent far-right magazine, was watching live from his couch.
âWe were following it like a soccer match,â he said.
Four months earlier, Elsässer had attended a march in Berlin, where a breakaway mob of far-right protesters tried â and failed â to force their way into the building that houses Germanyâs Parliament. The parallel was not lost on him.
Capitol Riot Puts Spotlight on âApocalyptically Mindedâ Global Far Right
Leaderless but united by racist ideology that has been supercharged by social media, extremists have built a web of real and online connections that worries officials.
Supporters of President Donald J. Trump standing off with the police outside the U.S. Capitol grounds on Jan. 6.Credit.Jason Andrew for The New York Times
Published Jan. 24, 2021Updated Jan. 26, 2021
BERLIN â When insurrectionists stormed the Capitol in Washington this month, far-right extremists across the Atlantic cheered. Jürgen Elsässer, the editor of Germanyâs most prominent far-right magazine, was watching live from his couch.