Revolutionary action cells

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The Revolutionary Action Cells (RAZ) are a militant communist group that has carried out fire and explosive attacks, mainly in Berlin since the end of 2009 , and announced attacks against German politicians and scientists. The group is being monitored by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution and prosecuted as a criminal organization by the Federal Prosecutor's Office .

attacks

On December 30, 2009 and February 4, 2010, two explosive devices exploded in Berlin; one in Wedding , in front of the employment agency, the other in Charlottenburg , in front of the house of business. The explosives consisted of camping gas cartridges . The police found an issue of the magazine radical together with a letter of confession at each crime scene . The abbreviation “RAZ”, followed by the communist hammer and sickle symbol, was sprayed on the walls as graffiti . In November 2010, the RAZ confessed to an arson attack in front of the Federal Administration Office in Berlin-Wilmersdorf .

Federal Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich received a letter on March 28, 2011, with a cartridge enclosed. The sentence was added that the next cartridge would come by express, which the investigating public prosecutor sees as a death threat. During the same period, the Deputy Attorney General Rainer Griesbaum received a letter with a cartridge and a threat.

The two extremism researchers Uwe Backes and Eckhard Jesse also received mail with 8-millimeter projectiles. The militants from the RAZ wrote to the two political researchers that they were doing propaganda out of their “academic ivory tower” and that they were prominent figures in the state march against whom a militant platform would be built. These letters also threatened that the next cartridges would be delivered by express.

At the end of April 2011, the RAZ carried out attacks on the central dunning court in Berlin-Brandenburg and the Senate Department for Urban Development in Berlin. Time-delayed incendiary devices were used and paint and stones were thrown against the walls and windows.

On the night of December 3, 2011, an explosives attack was carried out on the Göttingen district court . Several butane gas bottles were detonated, breaking the building's safety glass. The slogan “Murder the Nazis! The state is deporting! ”Followed by the abbreviation“ RAZ ”.

At the end of 2019, the RAZ reappeared for the first time since 2011. At the end of December 2019, the FDP MP Judith Skudelny received a threatening letter with a cartridge case attached. At the beginning of January 2020, the SPD member of the Bundestag, Carsten Träger, also received a threatening letter with a cartridge enclosed. In both cases, the letters were signed by the RAZ in cooperation with the "MIlitantE ZellE". The investigators classify the letters as authentic.

Ideology and structure

The RAZ sees itself as a group that continues the struggle “class against class” in a social revolutionary and anti-imperialist line. They published several letters of confession and instructions for building bombs in Radikal magazine . The RAZ complained about state repression against militant and revolutionary movements, but affirmed not to be intimidated, but to resist the "class struggle from above".

The RAZ is organized into four so-called “cells”, three of which are in Berlin, while the whereabouts of the fourth cell are unknown. The militants from the RAZ want to persuade the other members of the left-wing scene in Germany to found new "revolutionary action cells" across the country.

Government countermeasures

The revolutionary action cells are monitored by federal and state authorities for the protection of the constitution . The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Berlin wrote in 2011: "Violence is an integral part of their strategy and is not only propagated as an indispensable means of revolutionary struggle, but also exercised in militant actions." " Militante group " (mg) and " class against class " (KgK). The Attorney General at the Federal Court of Justice also sees the RAZ as a successor organization to the “militant group”.

On May 22, 2013, the authorities carried out a nationwide large-scale raid in 21 apartments in which members of the revolutionary action cells were suspected. 300 police officers searched apartments in Berlin, Stuttgart and Magdeburg . The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution stated in its 2013 report that its own findings “prepared” the investigations against the nine accused. The accused included a person convicted of membership in the militant group who was still in custody at the time of the searches.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mysterious Action Cells . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 18, 2010.
  2. ^ Arson attack on Federal Office . In: taz , November 20, 2010.
  3. ↑ Friedrich receives Kugel in the mail . In: taz , March 28, 2011.
  4. ↑ Left-wing extremism: Interior Minister Friedrich receives a letter with a pistol cartridge . Spiegel Online , March 28, 2011
  5. ↑ The cartridge is in a threatening letter . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , March 31, 2011; Retrieved December 5, 2011.
  6. ↑ cartridge for professors . ( Memento of April 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Free Press, April 1, 2011.
  7. ↑ Attack: Investigators are looking for perpetrators ( memento of December 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). NDR website, December 5, 2011; Retrieved December 6, 2011.
  8. ^ Death threat against FDP general secretary Skudelny . Retrieved February 19, 2020 . Tagesspiegel, December 31, 2019.
  9. ↑ SPD member receives threatening letter with cartridge . Retrieved February 19, 2020 . Tagesspiegel, January 6, 2020.
  10. ↑ Armin Pfahl-Traughber : Left-wing extremism in Germany: A critical inventory . Springer Verlag, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-04507-4
  11. ↑ see e.g. B. Berlin's constitution protection report 2011 (PDF; 4.3 MB) and the constitution protection report of the Federal Ministry of the Interior 2010 ( memento of 23 September 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
  12. ↑ A major raid on suspected left-wing extremists . Welt Online , May 22, 2013
  13. ↑ onleihe.de (PDF)
  14. ↑ Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution: Report on the Protection of the Constitution 2013 ( Memento of October 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) p. 172
  15. ^ Konrad Litschko: Cartridges as contribution to the discussion . In: taz , May 23, 2013