Overview
- The youth simulation Jugend und Parlament ran from June 6 to 9 with about 250 participants and was disrupted when one attendee posted a photo showing a hand sign the Bundestag identified as the White‑Power gesture and then expelled the participant under its house rights.
- The Bundestag said its administration involved Bundestag police where criminal relevance existed and that it has followed up on reported incidents that were made concrete to officials.
- Berlin police are investigating a separate early‑morning hotel altercation tied to the event for mutual bodily harm after multiple participants filed complaints and one young man was taken to hospital with suspected alcohol poisoning.
- SPD and Green parliamentary managers have asked the Ältestenrat to review the scope of racist language and behaviour reported among nominees and to consider changes to how participants are nominated and screened.
- AfD leaders have disputed parts of the reporting and framed some nominees as victims, but several specific claims remain unverified and media accounts differ on whether the hotel violence had a political motive, highlighting divisions in how parties portray the episode.