Demonstrators marched through streets of Berlin, holding banners and chanting slogans, against Donald Trump’s recent executive order on refugees / AP
- Figures were compiled by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution
- Of those arrested for politically-motivated offences, 84 per cent were men
- The majority, 72 per cent, were aged between 18 and 29
- Of offences against a person, four out of five cases were against police officers
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The figures, which were published in daily newspaper Bild revealed that 873 suspects were investigated by authorities between 2003 and 2013.
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More than half of the arrests were made in the Berlin districts of Friedrichshain, Kreuzberg and Mitte, mostly during demonstrations.
A third of them were unemployed, and 92 per cent still live with their parents.
The figures published in the Berlin newspaper said of the offences committed against a person, in four out of five cases the victims were police officers.
In 15 per cent of these cases, the victims were right wing activists.
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Between 2009 and 2013, the Bild report claims, left-wing assassins attempted to commit 11 murders.
Full article: 92% of left-wing activists live with their parents and one in three is unemployed, study of Berlin protesters finds (Daily Mail)
