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The Green Youth has called for children to be able to vote in elections in the future. “Voting is a basic democratic right. This must apply to all people. Democracy means that you have a say in your own living conditions. We believe that it is wrong to legally deny a certain group this across the board,” said the spokesman for the Green Youth, Georg Kurz. Green Youth leader Georg Kurz. Facebook The Green offspring therefore strives to ensure that under 16s are also allowed to vote reported German magazine Spiegel Online. “The limit of 16 years is also set...

It has long been charged that Antifa operatives enter the crowds of pro-freedom rallies and say and do things in order to discredit those rallies. In the protests in Chemnitz against mass Muslim migration, this man made a Hitler salute, which was picked up by the international media as proof that the rallies were full of neo-Nazis. But this man has now been unmasked as a supporter of the Red Army Faction, a Communist terrorist group. Even the German media is admitting it. But it is unlikely there will follow any retractions from the media outside the country, which is...

A "left-wing extremist" group in Germany associated with Antifa published a list of 54 police officers believed to have taken part in raids of suspected rioters protesting the G20 summit in Hamburg, with the group calling for the public to 'dox' the officers by sending in their personal information. "We would be pleased about tips regarding where they live or can be met privately," reads the post The list was posted Sunday evening on an extremist website, reports Die Welt, and is thought to be revenge for the publication by Hamburg investigators of over 100 photos and videos G20 riot...

[Subtitle: German media claims Horst Mahler identified as an informant for East German secret police in leaked report into 1967 shooting]He is one of the most paradoxical and notorious figures in modern German history: a social democrat lawyer turned leftwing terrorist who went to prison, turned to Maoism and then came out as a far-right nationalist.Now there is another twist: Horst Mahler, a founding member of the Red Army Faction, was also a Stasi informant.According to German newspaper reports, the revelation comes from a leaked report by state prosecutors re-investigating the shooting of a pacifist by a Berlin policeman during...

Israeli legal group sues North Korea over 1972 terror attack By Zohar Blumenkrantz An Israeli human rights organization is filing a lawsuit against North Korea over a 1972 terrorist attack at Ben-Gurion International Airport that left more than 20 people dead and over 50 wounded, Haaretz has learned. The attack, known as the Lod Airport massacre, was carried out by three members of the Japanese Red Army on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The victims included 16 Christian pilgrims from Puerto Rico, and Israeli professor and biophysicist Aharon Katzir. While two of the terrorists were...

A previously unknown militant group claims to be behind a series of arson attacks on banks in Frankfurt over the past two weeks. Police are still hunting for leads to the elusive group, while commentators are drawing links with Germany's notorious terrorist group the Red Army Faction. Until two weeks ago no one had heard of the Bewegung Morgenlicht. But now, they have thrust themselves onto the police's radar with a number of attacks on banks in Frankfurt. Two Saturdays ago, militants threw a petrol-soaked cloth into a Dresdner Bank foyer, setting fire to a cash machine. Just 24 hours...

A leading Italian neo-fascist with a nine-year conviction for conspiracy after the bombing of Bologna train station in 1980 has taken a seat in the European Parliament. Roberto Fiore, 49, came to Britain in the wake of the bombing, which left 85 people dead and over 200 wounded. The attack was carried out by the Nucleus of Armed Revolutionaries, a far-Right terrorist group. Although Mr Fiore, a member of the Third Position cell, was not directly involved in the execution of the bombing, he was convicted for conspiring to carry out an armed attack. He lived in the UK for...

Christian Klar, now 56, will walk out of jail after 26 years on January 3 after a court ruling. The decision comes despite earlier demands that he make an apology for his murderous crimes still not being met. Klar is portrayed in 'The Baader-Meinhof Complex' which is currently playing in British cinemas. The movie documents the crimes of the urban terrorists before they took the name RAF and it has been heavily criticised in Germany, particularly by the families of victims, for portraying him and his cohorts as 'cool' and their methods justified. Klar has shown no repentance for...

Wednesday morning, August 27, between 11 am and 1:30 pm EST or 9 am and 11:30 am mountain time, I'll be chairing a New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force event in Denver at the Colorado History Museum. The keynotes are Senator JOHN KERRY (D-MA), Obama National Security Adviser GREG CRAIG, Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School Dean ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER, former Congressman and Obama Adviser MEL LEVINE, former German Foreign Minister JOSCHKA FISCHER, and Aspen Institute President (and former CNN Chairman and CEO and TIME Managing Editor) Walter Isaacson. Our panel will be former Israeli negotiator and New America Foundation Senior Fellow...

Second Red Army murder convict paroled in Berlin By Associated Press Tuesday, August 21, 2007 BERLIN - A German court has freed a former Red Army Faction terrorist who was convicted in the 1985 murder of a U.S. soldier and the subsequent bombing of a U.S. air base after 21 years in prison. Eva Haule, 53, was released from a Berlin prison Friday, the same day that a Frankfurt court announced its decision to grant her parole, said Barbara Helten, a spokeswoman for Berlin’s state Justice Ministry. Spc. Edward Pimental, a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier, was shot dead after he...

Germany's President Horst Köhler has refused clemency to the convicted RAF terrorist Christian Klar. German President Horst Köhler has refused to grant early release to convicted Red Army Faction terrorist Christian Klar. Köhler's office announced Monday that the president had turned down Klar's plea for clemency, as well as a similar plea from fellow RAF member Birgit Hogefeld. Both Klar and Hogefeld are serving life sentences for murder. The 54-year-old Klar has been in prison for 24 years and is two years away from being eligible for parole. He is serving a life sentence for his role in the murder...

Baader-Meinhof gang member released Brigitte Mohnhaupt, 57, was given five life sentences but will be released on probation next month after serving the minimum term under German law   Brigitte Mohnhaupt, who will be released next month. The terror group she belonged to is suspected of killing 34 people between 1972 and 1991     Times Online and agencies   A German court has approved the release of one of the last jailed members of the Baader-Meinhof gang, who has spent 24 years in prison for her involvement in multiple kidnappings and murders in the 1970s. Brigitte Mohnhaupt, 57,...

Germany's 'Baader-Meinhof' SanitizedBy Stephen BrownFrontPageMagazine.com | October 24, 2003 Just imagine a film about 1960s radical Kathy Boudin, in which she is portrayed as a misguided fighter for freedom and human rights. And the Weather Underground? Imagine a film depicting it as a noble entity for its opposition to racism and the Vietnam War. Well, that might not be so far off if events in Germany are anything to go by. That country's notorious Baader-Meinhof terrorist group, aka the 'Red Army Faction', is currently undergoing a surge in popularity in the Federal Republic that has elevated it almost to pop status. And...

<p>BERLIN, Germany -- German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has said that neither his testimony in a kidnap trial nor his radical past should affect his current standing.</p> <p>He was speaking outside a Frankfurt court on Tuesday after giving evidence in the trial of former fellow radical, 52-year-old Hans-Joachim Klein.</p>

HAMBURG Horst Mahler, a former Marxist urban guerrilla and lawyer for the Red Army Faction, now represents the extreme right National Democratic Party. But the virulence of his views has not diminished, and his outspoken comments on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States have landed him back where he was decades ago - in court. Last week, Mahler went on trial here on charges of approving of crimes and inciting violence, and he could face three years in jail if convicted. A few weeks after the attacks in 2001, in a broadcast interview with Norddeutscher Rundfunk, the...

Marxist to Rightist, and Back to CourtBy DESMOND BUTLER, New York Times, Jan. 25, 2003 HAMBURG, Germany, Jan. 24 -- Horst Mahler, a former Marxist urban guerrilla and lawyer for the Red Army Faction, now represents the extreme right-wing National Democratic Party. But the virulence of his views has not diminished, and his outspoken comments on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States have landed him back where he was decades ago -- in court. Horst Mahler, a German lawyer and former Red Army Faction guerrilla who now represents a far-right party, is on trial over broadcast remarks...

A German far-right leader on trial for praising the 11 September attacks continued to lash out at the US in his first court appearance on Monday. Horst Mahler, a leading ideologue of the extreme-right National Democratic Party, is accused of condoning an illegal act. Nine days after the attacks in September 2001 he said in an interview on the ARD television network they were "cruel" but "justified" and said the perpetrators had his full sympathy. In court in Hamburg he said Arabs had a right to retribution against the United States, which he described as "the bloodiest and most imperialist...

A German far-right leader on trial for praising the 11 September attacks continued to lash out at the US in his first court appearance on Monday. Horst Mahler, a leading ideologue of the extreme-right National Democratic Party, is accused of condoning an illegal act. Nine days after the attacks in September 2001 he said in an interview on the ARD television network they were "cruel" but "justified" and said the perpetrators had his full sympathy. In court in Hamburg he said Arabs had a right to retribution against the United States, which he described as "the bloodiest and most imperialist...