Hundreds Empire Citizens have weapons license

berlin - Of possessing some 10,000 so-called Empire Citizens in Germany, there appear seven hundred official weapon permit. ' We see in parts of the Reich Citizens great willingness to violence. '

The German security service BfV Wednesday expressed concern about these facts. Empire Burgers (Reichsbürger) Germany does not recognize. They go out of the boundaries of the German Reich in 1937, when Adolf Hitler was in power. They reject democracy and deny the Holocaust.

The National Citizens were highlighted in the news when one of them shot a policeman dead in October. Initially, their number was estimated at 1,100, but that number appears so much larger. An initial investigation revealed last autumn that several policemen were Empire Burger. The security counts five to six hundred Empire Citizens to true right-wing extremists.