The Saxon police registered 172 anti-Jewish crimes last year. The number comes from a response from the Ministry of the Interior to a small request from Left MP Kerstin Köditz. In the previous year there were 189 acts. “The current number of cases is still at a high level, so it is too early to give the all-clear,” explained Köditz. She also doubts the completeness of the data.
If you take the obvious cases as a basis, they have recently increased particularly in Leipzig (38) and Dresden (26) as well as in the district of Meissen (19). On the other hand, they happened comparatively rarely in the Vogtland district and in the Erzgebirge district (six each), said Köditz. The statistics primarily included hate speech (111 acts) and the use of signs of unconstitutional organizations (31), such as Holocaust denial and banned Nazi slogans. In addition, there is also a dozen property damage. According to Köditz, around 80 percent of all crimes are associated with rights. What remains clear is that anti-Semitism is always and in any form unacceptable – no matter from which direction. The politician emphasized that consistent criminal prosecution is also important. But here of all places there are still no breakthroughs. Only 16 convictions reached the Saxon courts last year. In the previous year there had been 26 judgments. This area must not be relaxed. Hatred of Jews should be punished.
