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 Sign In Terrorism Add to myFT Rightwing terror in Europe draws fuel from populism and xenophobia Warnings grow that extremists are becoming more sophisticated and more violent An AfD march in Berlin. Critics claim that the far-right party 'legitimises people’s grievances and amplifies their anger and rage' © Getty David Bond in London and Guy Chazan in Berlin YESTERDAY 126 When German police arrested seven men last week, accusing them of forming a rightwing terror group called “Revolution Chemnitz”, prosecutors said they had foiled an extremist plot to strike at the heart of Germany’s establishment. After a summer of fierce clashes and rising tensions in the east German town that has become a byword for hard right violence and xenophobia, the arrests have thrown a new spotlight on a Europe-wide expansion of rightwing terror. Europol, the EU’s law enforcement agency, recorded a near doubling in the number of individuals arrested for rightwing extremist offences last year, a trend analysts say is being driven by social media and a dangerous mix of populist politics, economic inequality and a dissatisfaction with liberal elites and institutions.