The shifting shape of the European far right

  • This is the second article in our series Trouble on the­ Far-Right. Since 2011 signs have been multiplying in Europe of a far right grassroots insurgency in the making. And there were signals, too, of a racist insurrection: arson attacks, petrol bombs, paramilitary and vigilante activities, and the stockpiling of weapons. The first major indication of the far right’s capacity for mass murder came from Norway on 22 July 2011. Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people, mainly teenagers, whom he shot dead at the Labour Party youth summer camp on Oslo’s Utøya Island. At his trial, Breivik described the youngsters he so cruelly murdered as ‚traitors‘ who had embraced immigration in order to promote an ‘Islamic colonization of Norway‘..

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Author:Liz Fekete
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-392196
URL:http://www.sicherheitspolitik-blog.de/2016/03/17/the-shifting-shape-of-the-european-far-right/
Parent Title (German):sicherheitspolitik-blog.de
Place of publication:Frankfurt am Main
Document Type:Report
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2016/03/17
Date of first Publication:2016/03/17
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2016/04/08
Tag:Clement Méric; Golden Dawn; Pegida; citizens initiatives; far right; fascism; paramilitary; racism; subculture
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HeBIS-PPN:381146960
Institutes:Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Exzellenzcluster / Exzellenzcluster Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
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