Overview
- Police figures, disclosed Tuesday in a federal reply to an AfD query, show 5,140 offences against party members in 2025, up from 3,690 in 2024.
- AfD representatives faced 1,852 attacks, including 121 violent offences that police mostly attributed to suspects from the left spectrum.
- Cases against the CDU surged to 1,171, Greens were targeted in 1,005 incidents, and 168 offences involved the CSU, according to the national tally.
- Of all recorded incidents, 193 were violent, while 1,289 were so‑called expression crimes such as hate speech, defamation, and insults, along with vandalism at homes and party stands.
- In Lower Saxony, a report released Monday logged 8,309 politically motivated offences in 2025, with right‑wing crimes at 3,758, right‑wing violence rising to 110, and left‑wing cases up about a third to the highest level since 2001.