Overview

• Interior Minister René Wilke is holding a two-hour meeting this afternoon in Spremberg with municipal leaders from the Lausitz to discuss possible strategies against right-wing extremism.
• Spremberg’s mayor, Christine Herntier, triggered the consultation with a July letter citing a surge of graffiti, banned symbols, extremist slogans, and damage to public buildings.
• The Verfassungsschutz recorded 3,650 right-wing extremists in Brandenburg in 2024, a near 20 percent increase on the previous year.
• Counselors at Opferperspektive report a consolidated right-wing youth culture, while recent incidents include attacks on youth clubs in Senftenberg and Spremberg, an assault on an alternative housing project in Cottbus in May, and violence at a diversity festival in Bad Freienwalde in June.
• The neo-Nazi group Der Dritte Weg reports activity in towns including Senftenberg and faced citizen protests in Spremberg last weekend, and in Luckenwalde a youth center reported a smashed window and a threatening letter as police noted no local concentration of such cases.