Germany’s right-wing extremists ---------------------------------- Germany’s BfV intelligence service identified over 32,200 right-wing extremists in 2019, a third higher compared to 2018 when authorities counted 24,100 people involved in right-wing extremist networks ---------------------------------- 2000-07: National Socialist Underground terror cell kills nine people with immigrant backgrounds, plus policewoman ---------------------------------- Oct 2016: Member of far-right Reichsbürger movement kills police officer and wounds two others during raid in Bavaria. BfV estimates there are 16,500 Reichsbürger members ---------------------------------- Sep 2017: Far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) enters 709-seat Bundestag. AFD is now biggest opposition party with 89 seats ---------------------------------- Nov: Andreas Hollstein, mayor of Altena, survives knife attack linked to his liberal immigration policy ---------------------------------- Aug 2018: Far-right mob, some flashing Nazi salutes, take over streets of city of Chemnitz ---------------------------------- Jan 2019: BfV classifies 7,000 members of AfD’s Der Flügel faction and 1,000 members of Junge Alternative as extremists ---------------------------------- Jun 2: Walter Lübcke – member of ruling Christian Democrats – is assassinated at his home near Kassel by neo- Nazi sympathizer ---------------------------------- Oct 9: Two people are shot dead when right-wing extremist attempts to shoot his way into Halle synagogue on Yom Kippur ---------------------------------- DENMARK NETHERLANDS SWEDEN POLAND GERMANY Kassel Berlin Altena Halle Chemnitz Hanau 200km 125 miles ---------------------------------- Oct 27: Death threats sent to two Green Party parliamentarians, Cem Özdemir (above left) and Claudia Roth (above right), by right-wing extremist group calling itself Atomwaffen Division ---------------------------------- Jan 2020: Neo-Nazi Combat 18 banned in Germany ---------------------------------- Feb 19: Suspected far-right gunman kills nine people at two shisha bars in city of Hanau ---------------------------------- Sources: Deutsche Welle, Reuters, Spiegel Pictures: Associated Press © GRAPHIC NEWS