Overview

• Juvenile suspects aged 14–17 in right‑wing extremist cases doubled year over year to 3,854 in 2024, and offenses by people up to 24 rose from about 3,200 in 2020 to more than 7,100 last year.
• Nearly 90% of suspects are male, with the largest concentration among mid‑teens, and authorities also report a notable rise in cases involving children under 13.
• The government names loosely organized formations such as Jung & Stark, Deutsche Jugend Voran, Der Störtrupp and Letzte Verteidigungs Welle, alongside youth structures around Die Heimat and Der III. Weg, with the dissolved AfD youth wing cited as an example.
• Officials say these groups recruit through Instagram, TikTok and Telegram, mask ideology with benign hashtags, rely on extremist influencers and increasingly deploy AI tools to evade scrutiny while mobilizing quickly without fixed hierarchies.
• Police recently raided suspected members of Deutsche Jugend Voran in Berlin, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg‑Vorpommern, as Green lawmakers Marlene Schönberger and Schahina Gambir urge more prevention and exit funding and criticize proposed cuts to civic education.