An unabiguous good, in my opinion. However, the most noteworthy part of this story is that she had spent years studying the far-right and arrived, logically, at the conclusion that expunging them from society by violent means is the best course of action.
>Other Germans were angered by the decision to release Lina E, after two-and-a-half years in custody - believing the decision implies violence against the extreme right is acceptable.
As the longer article linked in that piece points out, those "other Germans" are the AfD and a right-wing ex-spy chief: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65785592
The Alternative For Deutschland has taken kind of an interesting trajectory. It started out as a bourgeois conservative movement which felt alienated from traditional Conservative politics because of Merkel's middle-of-the-road stance, which to them lacked a sharp Conservative profile. They were not really neo-Nazi extremists at the time the party started out in the early 2010s. It was only gradually that the AfD was subverted by neo-Nazis and far-right factions who were looking for a new political home as the German government increasingly cracked down on and banned far-right extremist splinter parties.
But yeah, these days, they're pretty much the far right's inroad into mainstream parliamentary politics, as they have quite a few seats both in the Bundestag and regional parliaments. Nobody wants to form coalitions with them, they're kind of the filthy kid in the playground that nobody wants to play with, but nobody really knows how to tackle them either.
>>40280 Sounds like a very similar story to UKIP. Started out as a group of people who had very genuine disagreements with the EC, and later legitimate objections to Maastricht. He was not particularly happy with the rise of Nige, and was forced out of the leadership by a group of Faragistas. He shortly thereafter left the party entirely, denouncing it as having been taken over by racists and reactionaries.
