German police seized thousands of recordings of suspected neo-Nazi music in raids on more than 200 homes and businesses, the federal crime office (BKA) said yesterday.
“Right-wing extremists use music to arouse interest and win support,” said Siegfried Mahler, head of the state prosecutor’s office in Stuttgart.
“Using aggressive, xenophobic, anti-Semitic and anti-democratic lyrics, they spread extreme right-wing ideas and figures of hate,” he said in a statement.
Police seized more than 45,000 suspect recordings, more than 170 computers and about 70 weapons or parts of weapons in the raids, carried out in all of Germany’s 16 federal states, the BKA said.
Police suspected 204 people of being involved, all between the ages of 21 and 45, but had not yet issued any arrest warrants, a police spokesman said. – (Reuters)
