Overview
- The police, which officials said Wednesday would deploy a large force, plan to secure Fulda on Saturday, March 28, as protests target the AfD youth group Generation Deutschland’s Hesse launch.
- Interior Minister Roman Poseck said turnout should be below the roughly 25,000 who protested the federal founding in Gießen in November 2025, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine said thousands are likely.
- He described a broad Hesse-wide mobilization with no evidence of calls beyond the state.
- A coalition of unions and civic groups set a schedule that starts with a 10:00 march, then a 10:30 democracy festival outside the Bürgerhaus in Johannesberg, with the AfD meeting set for 11:00 inside.
- East Hesse police will run the operation with support units, and Poseck urged peaceful conduct, warning that unlawful blockades or violence would be treated as attacks on the rule of law.