Calls for crackdown on anti-government extremists in Germany
German lawmakers called for a crackdown on anti-government extremists Friday in response to the killing this week of a police officer by an adherent of the so-called Reich Citizens Movement.
The 32-year-old officer died a day after being shot in the Bavarian town of Georgensgmuend on Wednesday. Officials had ordered the 49-year-old shooter's hoard of firearms confiscated because he was deemed unfit to own them due to repeated clashes with authorities.
Stephan Mayer, a lawmaker with the governing conservatives, said Germany's domestic intelligence agency should consider monitoring the Reich Citizens Movement, a loose grouping with links to nationalist parties and far-right groups.
