Newsgroup: it.politica.destra
Titolo: IL SISTEMA ATTACCA

September 5th 2000
German police seize thousands of neo-Nazi CD's
MAGDEBURG, Germany, Sept 5 (AFP) -
German police have seized more than 6,400 compact discs of neo-Nazi music,
some with covers that showed Adolf Hitler or dead Jews from concentration
camps, in a major crackdown on far-right circles, an official said Tuesday.
The police sweep comes as Germany seeks to react to a wave of neo-Nazi
attacks this summer that have authorities worried about persistent extremism
and the damage it can do to Germany's international reputation, as well as
business.
Police official Gerhard Paasch said police in the states of Thuringia and
Saxony-Anhalt, situated in the former communist eastern Germany, had also
seized files with 1,500 names and addresses of clients for this kind of
music in Germany, Finland, Norway, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
The police sweep was made August 30 in the cities of Halle and Weimar,
mainly in nightclubs preferred by neo-Nazis.
Police seized some 30,000 CD covers, videos and swastika signs. Some of the
covers had pictures of Hitler or swastikas or pictures of dead Jews from
concentration camps, a government spokesman said.
Objects that incite racial hatred, including Nazi propaganda, are illegal in
Germany, Paasch said, adding that many of the objects seized had been
manufactured in Sweden.
The main suspect is the owner of a neo-Nazi disco in Halle, who with two
alleged accomplices runs two other such nightclubs in Weimar.
Police did not give the suspect's name.
Paasch said police had between April 1998 and April 2000 already seized more
than 7,500 CD's, several computers and other material in Saxony-Anhlat.
Far-right groups are making increasing use of hate music, often distributed
or sold on the Internet, to recruit members, the German domestic
intelligence service, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution has
said.
Far-right groups also recruit at concerts of such music, or in neo-Nazi
night clubs.
On Saturday, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder reiterated his commitment
to the fight against the far-right, saying it should be seen as a long-term
project and should not be trivialised.
He also expressed concern at the effect far-right extremism could have on
Germany's international image.
The German parliament's human rights commission is to meet on September 12
to discuss the summer's wave of far-right violence.
Schroeder ended last Friday a 12-day tour of eastern Germany that gave him a
chance to sound a battle cry he hopes will define Germany's fight against
far-right extremism.
On Thursday, in the eastern town of Dessau, he had called for Germans to
unite in a battle against neo-Nazism, less than 24 hours after three
skinheads were convicted and sentenced to long prison terms for beating to
death a Mozambican man.
The beating in Dessau on June 11 and a wave of other attacks, including a
bomb blast in the western city of Dusseldorf on July 27 that wounded 10
people, among them six Jewish refugees from the former Soviet Union, have
led German authorities to call for a society-wide response to extremism.

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 wrote:
 > meno male che lo fa!!! ci mancherebbe altro
 > non lo facesse!!
 > 
Il punto della questione e' che i CD non sono armi,
bombe, droghe.
I CD, libri, riviste, etc. sono materiale il cui
contenuto e' funzione degli interessi di chi lo
acquista ma, al tempo stesso, non danneggia in alcun
modo chi non e' interessato a quel materiale.
Leben und leben lassen. :-)
Il sequestro di CD e computers e' semplicemente un
atto ridicolo, illiberale e indice dell'assoluta
incompetenza e analfabetismo di magistrati e poliziotti,
rivelatisi all'altezza dei loro colleghi italiani.
Regards,
--
  Robert.