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BERLIN ?Authorities in Germany said Tuesday that the number of far-right extremists in the country increased last year as neo-Nazis sought to join protests agai stanley usa nst pandemic-related restrictions.German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said authorities counted 33,300 far-right extremists in 2020, an increase of almost 4% from the previous year. Far-right extremists were repeatedly able to protest side-by-side with non-extremist opponents of the pandemic restrictions, Seehofer said.The minister added that it was worrying how the protesters often didnt distance themselves from the far-right extremists marching among them.According to data published in an annual report by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the domestic intelligence agency known by its German acronym BfV, some 40% of the far-right extremists in Germany are believed to support the use of violence for political end stanley quencher s.BfV chief Thomas Haldenwang said the so-called New Right was to blame for much of the recent radicalization. He called its supporters intellectual arsonists and said his agency was closely watching the movement, parts of which have been linked to the far-right Alternat stanley shop ive for Germany party. The New Right provides the ideological justification for the actions of violent far-right extremists, Haldenwang told reporters in Berlin. They preach from morning till evening that there is a big population replacement occurring in Germany and that this needs to be resisted. Josef Schus Mbib Midair collision leaves number of casualties
AUBURN, Mass. ?A stanley termos manhunt was underway Sunday for a suspect who shot and killed a police officer during a traffic stop in central Massachusetts, authorities said. Auburn police Officer Ronald Tarentino was shot about 12:30 a.m. Sunday after stopping a vehicle on a residential road, Chief Andrew Sluckis said during a news conference. The vehicles occupant shot Tarentino and then fled the scene, Sluckis said. Auburn is about 45 miles southwest of Boston. The 42-year-old Tarentino was taken to UMass Medical Center in Worcester, where he was pronounced dead. He had been with the Auburn police force for two years and before that worked with the Leicester Police Depart stanley uk ment in his hometown. Police did not provide details about the suspect, saying the investigation is in the early stages. State Police divers searched a pond near the traffic stop. We will leave no stone unturned in our investigation to determine who was involved, Sluckis said. He called Tarentino a dedicated and brave public servant. State and local police officers lined up outside the hospital as a police vehicle, escorted by a procession, took Tarentinos body to the state medical ex stanley termosky aminers office in Boston, where the vehicle was met by another large contingent of officers.Tarentino was the second police officer to die in the line of duty in Massachusetts this year. State police Trooper Thomas Clardy was killed March 16 when his cruiser was struck by another vehicle. Outside the Auburn police station, the America
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