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Germany: Charges against anti-fascists dropped

01 November 1996

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After five years of investigations, the charges of conspiracy against 17 alleged members of the Autonome Antifa (M) were dropped in September. The state prosecutor of Lower Saxony faced a significant political defeat in not being able to criminalise the antifascist activities of the Autonome Antifa (M). Between 1990 and 1994, the group organised several anti-fascist demonstrations in a broad coalition with the Green Party, trade unions, autonomous groups, grassroots initiatives and parts of the Social Democratic Party in Lower Saxony directed against the growing number of extreme right attacks and the centres of neo-fascist groups. Lower Saxony's state prosecutor regarded these demonstrations as "criminal offences by a criminal organisation". However, if the dismissal of the case constitutes a defeat for the state prosecution, one objective, the surveillance of left and anti-fascist groups in the region has been achieved: 143 people were investigated, 13,929 phone calls recorded, and 30 raids of offices and private flats carried out. Autonome Antifa (M), press release, 30.8.96 & 20.9.96; ibid: 1:1 für den anti- faschistischen Widerstand, September 1996, pp50.

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