A Short Guide to Militant Democracy - Some Remarks on the Strasbourg Jurisprudence

Beširević, Violeta (2012) A Short Guide to Militant Democracy - Some Remarks on the Strasbourg Jurisprudence. In: European yearbook on human rights 2012 / ed. by Wolfgang Benedek ... [et al.] ; associate ed.: Matthias C. Kettemann. Intersentia ; Neuer Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Antwerp ; Wien, pp. 243-257. ISBN 978-1-78068-103-0

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Abstract

The revelations at the end of 2011 about ten racially motivated murders stunned Germans who believed that that crisis over euro possessed the greatest risk to Germany and Europe's well-being. To recall, the killings of the nine men from immigrant backgrounds (ethnic Turks, an ethic Greek) and a police officer, committed between 2000 and 2007, were back in the public eye when last November the German investigative authorities connected them with the neo-Nazi group - NSU whose name echoes the name of Adolf Hitler's NSDAP. (FN 1 ) After the details about a brutal series of murders were disclosed, the ruling CDU began to reconsider its long lasting opposition to a ban of the NDP, which is said to have links to more extreme groups. (FN 2 ) Generally, Germany is known as a country ready to defend its democracy from the extreme right or left.

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