The German BKA, the central police authority, have published a press release detailing the arrest of around 60 individuals accused of creating and distributing antisemitic and other xenophobic content online, following an investigation involving 25 police departments across 14 provinces. Around 40 investigations are underway, making it the largest such operation that the German police have carried out.
Those arrested are also accused of having denied the Holocaust, as well as celebrating “particular aspects of National Socialism”. Much of the content was allegedly shared on a private Facebook group frequented by far-right radicals.
The political climate in Germany following the migrant crisis has attracted attention in the international media, with some pointing out that the country’s far right appears to be in the ascendancy.