Merkel concerned about increasing violence in east-Germany

On Monday, Chancellor Angela Merkel is worried the right-wing attacks could refresh Germany rifts once again. The recent protests of the right-wing in Germany have posed a threat on the nation’s unity. There has been a rise in the right-wing violence nowadays, mostly in the eastern part of the country, which has led to the increase in the number of refugees sheltering there.

“I don’t intend to make an east-west conflict,” she said, as quoted by ABC. She said the “full force of the law” would be applied to those who attacked, abused or insulted migrants taking shelter in the country. She seemed mum on whether the east was full of anti-foreigner sentiments.

In October, Germany will be celebrating its 25 th anniversary of unification. However, the increasing tension between the eastern and western parts of the nation seems to be an emerging threat that might lead to the split again. The protest is hoped not to destroy the peace, which the nation welcomed a quarter of a century earlier ending the Cold War between the eastern and western parts.

According to the Constitutional Protection Report 2014 of Germany, there has been a rise of 24 per cent in the number of violence by extremists in 2014, which accounted to 990 total acts of violence. The Interior Minister of Germany, Thomas de Maiziere, said that out of the total number of violence acts, 170 were directed at harassing the refugees.

Out of the total population of Germany, around one per cent people welcomed the refugees in 2015, which amounts to 800,000 individuals.

In the first half of 2015, over 200 attacks shook asylum centres and the numbers are increasing every day, making it a daily event. The attackers also have origins in the western part of the nation, but majority of the violence were from the east where Moscow-communist rule prevails.

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