BERLIN — Germany's domestic intelligence agency says the number of anti-Semitic acts of violence rose sharply last year alongside a further increase in those identified as far-right extremists.
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The BfV agency said in its annual report Thursday The number of anti-Semitic acts of violence rose by 71.4 % in 2018 to 48 from 21 the previous year.
It also said that the number of far-right extremists rose by 100 to 24,100 people last year with more than half of them potentially violent.
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Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said "we can find in almost all areas of far-right extremism hostile attitudes toward Jews ... it's a development that we must take, very, very, very seriously."
He warned that migrants, Muslims and politicians were considered enemies by the far-right too.














