Days after the deadly shooting spree in Hanau, where a hate-motivated gunman killed ten people before taking his own life, Bild am Sonntag newspaper came up with an eye-catching survey, carried out by pollster, Kantar, revealing Germans' attitudes toward extremism.
It found that 49 percent of Germans consider far-right extremists to be the greatest terrorist threat in the country, whereas only 27 percent of their compatriots said they feel the same danger from Islamist fundamentalists.
Remarkably, 60 percent opined that the right-wing, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) shares responsibility for attacks like the one in Hanau, despite the party leaders trying their best to publicly denounce the shooting spree and disavow themselves from the lone-wolf gunman.
The aforementioned result fits well into the mainstream view as many voices on the left - including top brass from the Social Democrats, Greens and Die Linke - rushed to bash AfD, with demands heard for the party to be put on a watch list and its members to be surveilled by Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the BfV.
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