the while streaming his actions on the internet where he had also announced his intentions he has since admitted a far right anti-semitic motive the central council of jews says serves a new type of extremism on the march hala terror attack how deadly is germany s far right. that s our topic on to the point and here are our guests to answer that question christopher works for the new york times in berlin he reported from hala and says as tragic as last week s synagogue attack was without germany s strict gun laws the day would have been much worse allan posner is a commentator for the daily lives. he says the far right in germany is
following the attack that attempt to break down the doors on closed circuit t.v. is that right that s right i think the counter took them to a back room to the congregation and then he himself in the security person they actually followed the attack so there was could hear things outside the congregants were away from these screens the video screens what was striking was the people and i met on the night of the attack there was sort of an impromptu memorial up by the big church the market square and there were people that were so upset i was trying to run as one does on deadline trying to get some quotes and some of these people i thought i would have to sort of get them medical help i mean there were there was this one young man who was 20 years old and he had been praying and he was crying i mean it was like people in that city were just so shaken by it much more so than the people apparently inside the synagogue she. and i no doubt you were shaken were
a long way from interesting terror and as long as terror from whatever direction does not have not supported it is an inconvenience rather than a danger for democracies like germany. and shania was on this is a producer and a middle east commentator here at the she s an israeli citizen living in berlin and she says it s time for german authorities to up their game speeches and declarations are you know. so christopher let me start out by asking you what you encountered when you went to hell right after this attack what was the response of people who d been in the senate god and what was the response of others in the house. i spoke with the people who were inside the synagogue the next day on thursday morning and they told me that actually been quite calm and that this counter you take good care of them and that they were of course worried but that the mood was not one of panic. just from what i understood they were
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
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