Violence against politicians has been dominating the headlines, but instances of everyday racism and antisemitic attacks are causing German victim advice centres to sound the alarm. Euronews travelled to Thuringia, a right-wing hotspot, to speak with a victim of neo-Nazi violence.
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00:00Violence against politicians has been dominating the headlines, but instances of everyday racism
00:06and anti-Semitic attacks are causing German victim advice centers to sound the alarm.
00:12Euronews traveled to Thuringia, a right-wing hotspot, to speak with a victim of a prominent
00:17neo-Nazi who was strangled and had his nose broken.
00:20Maya is 20 years old, comes from Syria and has lived in Germany for almost nine years.
00:35He is particularly concerned about the rise in support for AFD, which has been designated
00:39as extremist by a German court.
00:59Since 2013, right-wing racist and anti-Semitic violence has soared to a record high.
01:06Thuringia victim support group Ezra say some convictions can take years.
01:24Ezra say there is a direct link between the increase in right-wing violence and support
01:29for the AfD, which is currently polling at second place in Germany and expected to make
01:35sweeping gains in upcoming elections.
01:48These figures are just the tip of the iceberg as not all crimes are recorded and data is
01:53missing from some federal states.