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Rightwing extremist terrorism - why was it underestimated for so long?

Kiron KreuterNovember 25, 2011

The latest report by Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, says: "Again in 2010, no rightwing terrorist structures could be found." Now that a decade-long series of murders by neo-Nazis has come to light, that statement sounds like a bad joke.

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How was it possible to be so far off the mark? Have the security services concentrated too exclusively on Islamist terrorism and the leftwing radical scene?