Declaration by the Anti-Imperialist Front in connection with the massacre in Hanau, Germany.
Fascism is a crime, not an opinion. Fascism is inhuman. Fascism is an evil that must be eradicated. Any block or front which does not aim at overthrowning fascism is destinated to remain within the limits of new world order and to soffucate within the limit of the order.
Every massacre, every terrorist attack and murder in the world is signed by fascism and imperialism.
What happened from Hanau, in Germany, is only the latest manifestation of this ideology that strikes and spreads without any filter or legislative limit. Tobias Rathjen, a 43-year-old German man, entered two different cafes in the city frequented mainly by citizens from other non-European countries, opening fire.
Then he returned to his home, killed his mother and committed suicide. Provisional balance sheet: 11 dead and several injured.
Among the victims, all of foreign origin, are mainly Turks and Kurds. According to the media, the assault in the two cafes was carried out by a man suffering from a serious psychic illness, but he had a weapons license and openly sympathized with the neo-Nazi fringes, he incited racial hatred on the social media and last year he wrote a manifesto calling for the total destruction of most countries in North Africa and the Middle East.
After the massacre, a note found in his house said “Arabs and Muslim Turks must be exterminated”.
The massacre is part of a disturbing trend of prosperity of violent fascist and racist attacks.
But it could not be otherwise, since there are (not only in Germany) extreme right-wing parties such as the Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany, Afd), which feed undisturbed racial tensions.
In the heart of Europe grow the black hearts of neo-Nazism. If, as usual, the Nazi-Fascists are described as “mad”, but only after they have massacred or killed someone, it is emerging as well as within the state apparatus, particularly in the police and the army, neo-Nazi cells have been created.1
While criminalization, repression, persecution and blackmailing of left, antifascists, especially organized left political migrants is increasing, nazis and extremely right wing groups and people linked to them can freely move and were enabled again to kill innocent people.
Racist motivated, discriminating and fascist ideas can’t be put on a level with those of the antifascist movement. Fascism is a crime, it’s a human duty to fight back!
FREEDOM FOR ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS, WHO ARE CHARGED AND ARRESTED FOR THEIR ANTIFASCIST, ANTI-IMPERIALIST POLTICIAL IDEAS AND DEFENSE OF FREEDOM STRUGGLE!
1-A short time ago in Frankfurt, five policemen were suspended on charges of belonging to a neo-Nazi network: they had threatened by fax to slaughter the two-year-old daughter of Turkish lawyer Seda Basay-Yildiz. ↩
