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German media report on fake Jewish organizations [with far right, Reichsbürger links]
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At least 10 associations calling themselves Jewish received official, nonprofit status, only to be revealed to have links to Germany’s “Reichsbürger” (literally, “citizens of the German Empire”) scene.
“We are familiar with the problems of these groups and individuals,” Saskia Benter Ortega, spokesperson for the Central Council of Jews in Germany, told DW, referring to Reichsbürger sympathizers.
In its democratic form today, Germany protects freedom of religion and “does not regulate whether and under what conditions an association may or may not describe itself as belonging to a religious or ideological confession,” an interior ministry spokesperson told DW.
It is unclear if those behind the fake “Jewish” groups can be prosecuted for any illegal behavior as the “extent to which the designation as a ‘Jewish’ association is misused here cannot be assessed on the basis of the reporting mentioned,” the interior ministry spokesperson said.
It is just as unclear what the Reichsbürger sympathizers had in mind, though the Central Council’s Ortega expressed a general concern about the “threat to society as a whole posed by the concealment of their true intentions.”
Such groups can also be disbanded if they turn out to violate criminal law, engage in unconstitutional behavior or undermine what the interior ministry calls “international understanding.”
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