History
Right-wing terrorism came to widespread attention after the August 1980 Bologna bombing, when a group of right-wing terrorists exploded a bomb at a railroad station in Bologna, Italy, killing 84 people and injuring more than 180. Two months later, a right-wing terrorist attack in Munich, Germany killed the attacker and 14 other people, injuring 215. Fears of an on-going campaign of major right-wing terrorist attacks did not materialize.
In 1983, Gordon Kahl, a Posse Comitatus activist, killed two federal marshals and was later killed by police. Also that year, the white nationalist revolutionary group The Order (also known as the Brüder Schweigen or Silent Brotherhood) became involved with terrorism, including: robbing a sex shop, several banks and armored cars; bombing a theater and a synagogue; and murdering radio talk show host Alan Berg.
In November 2011 two members of the German National Socialist Underground committed suicide after a bank robbery and a third member was arrested some days later. Apart from several bank robberies the group was responsible for the so-called Bosphorus serial murders and the 2004 Cologne bombing as well as the murder of policewoman Michéle Kiesewetter back in 2007.
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