Overview

• Dirk Peglow of the Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter has warned that Islamist extremists in Germany are inciting violence against Druze, Kurds and Alawites
• The Berlin State Criminal Police have launched hate-speech investigations into antisemitic and anti-Druze chants at pro-Ahmed al-Scharaa rallies
• In Düsseldorf last week, hundreds were arrested after Arabic-Syrian groups attacked a pro-Kurdish demonstration at the main train station
• Ali Toprak of Kurdische Gemeinde Deutschland is pressing the federal government to establish legal provisions for revoking asylum and deporting extremist offenders
• Officials caution that unchecked sectarian incitement linked to Syria’s civil war poses a growing public-safety threat across Germany