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| Refugee Crisis and Terrorist Attacks in Germany: Interrogating Domestic Terrorist Groups |
Frank-Collins N. Okafor (PhD) & Ebie, Sunday Onyekwuma
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Abstract:
This study focused on the current refugee crisis in Germany and the unprecedented level of terrorist attacks in Germany. Within the period under study Germany recorded series of terrorist attacks and planned attacks resulting to high human casualties and destructions of properties. These terrorist attacks were carried out by the terrorist groups such as the Islamic militias and other local groups operating in Germany. To ascertain the existing domestic terrorist groups and their contributions to the rate of terrorist attacks and general insecurity in Germany consequent on the refugee crisis, the study adopted secondary sources of data, content analysis and applied System Theory. The paper discovered that Germany is a nation of politically radicalised groups such as the Far-right, the far-left and the neo-Nazis that hold tenaciously to their ideologies and can express their opposition to any issue or event through violent means. It was also discovered that these groups have been in existence from the period of the Weimar Republic and still maintain their hard line positions till date. Also, that their opposition to the accommodation of the refugees by the German Government escalated the terrorist attacks as most attacks were committed by these local groups. The paper recommends among others that the German Government should put more effort in re-orientation programmes so that the anti-migrants' groups such as the far-right, far-left and the neo-Nazis can adopt a more peaceful approach to agitations and to also see the need to harness the benefit of the migrants' labour to the economic development of Germany during this period of aged labour. The government should also interface with the groups since the identity of the members are known to create an understanding with regard to public policies that may be misunderstood.
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