Overview
- The Bavarian government, which presented its annual domestic intelligence report Monday, reported sharper pressure on democracy from espionage, sabotage and targeted disinformation.
- Authorities said cyberattacks grew more professional and increasingly political, citing calls on social media to hit countries that back Ukraine.
- Security services logged a marked rise in extremist violence, with left‑wing attacks jumping from 16 to 72 incidents and accounting for about half of all violent extremist crimes.
- Investigators said they thwarted attack plans by 13‑ and 15‑year‑olds, a result officials cite to defend Bavaria’s rules that allow monitoring certain minors at risk of radicalisation.
- The agency continued to observe the AfD over suspected extremism and recorded fewer followers of the Reichsbürger scene, dropping from 5,430 to 5,070 after enforcement actions and bans such as the prohibition of “Königreich Deutschland.”