Some background:

Right wing terror was an invention of the post-WWI period (1919). The leftists attempted revolutions, were defeated in civil-war like scenes on the streets and then the right wingers proceeded to try some coup d'etats. The army was largely neutral, but paramilitary right-wing militias (Freikorps) participated.

The open combat of the 1919-1923 period subsided after the hyperinflation, but right and left wing continued (sporadic) violence.

During this time it became obvious that the establishment's police and courts (old national-conservative men) were biased.
The police was effectively in its work against left-wing criminals and the judges preferred maximum sentences on them.
Against right wing violence (even homicides) there was rarely an arrest and there were even cases where right wing murderers only had to pay a fine.

This (and some unpleasant experiences in the early Federal Republic history till the '68s) led to the phrase 'auf dem rechten Auge blind' (blind on the right eye.
This phrase has already been revived in regard to the current scandal, becuase it appears to be the only explanation that survives Occam's Razor.
The quantity of cases of ineffectiveness on part of police and intelligence agents in this case is so great that randomness is a poor explanation.

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The whole thing is terribly embarrassing on many levels, for
multiple states, the federal level, multiple parties in power, multiple types of agencies were failing.
On top of that it plays into the hands of the left-wing Antifa (anti-fascists, a very wide definition) and multiple minority groups (Muslim groups are already complaining that they were under scrutiny, but the group of right wingers killed more than Muslim terrorists in Germany and it wasn't even known).

It's also amazing how in a country of increased domestic espionage, a need to register at the county when you move your appartment and so on at least one of the group was able to live in the underground for more than 10 years. On top of that, the Verfassungsschutz surely had to spot him sometime in this period.



I'd also like to point out that during the roughly ten years of right wing killings, several bus drivers killed more people than the whole right wing. Or left wing. Or Muslims.
Bus drivers are scary as a group by comparison!
(Well, either that of these errorists aren't exactly scary. Make your choice!)


Sven <--- still using busses