Germany's newly-appointed Family and Youth Minister Katarina Barley on Wednesday called for her country to further strengthen its efforts to prevent all forms of extremism, calling for a federal law on the prevention of extremism to stabilize projects and initiatives against, for example, right-wing extremism.
Although there is now more money available for prevention, "we aren't yet on target," Barley said on Wednesday. Announcing the findings of a report into extremism prevention, Barley said at a press conference in Berlin that in fighting Islamist extremism, "we must not wait until young people have become radicalized."
"Security and prevention must go hand in hand," she added.
According to Barley, prevention work must begin where the threat is particularly high, for example in the school yard, on the Internet, and also in the prisons.As part of Germany's 2018 "national prevention program" against extremism,
some 100 million euros ($112 million) will be invested into specifically combating Islamist extremism. Some funds will be allocated to supporting mosque communities, while money will also be invested in expanding the prevention of radicalization online."Minors have already committed serious acts of violence," Bavarian Interior Minister
Joachim Herrmann told the Funke media group, adding that Germany "must consequently deal" with such cases.Barley on Wednesday described Herrmann's demand as a "misguided approach," arguing that children should be protected from slipping into radicalized violence.Germany's governing "grand coalition" has already reduced the minimum age for monitoring by Germany's intelligence agencies from 16 to 14 years.
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