Overview

• Police raided apartments of five suspected Deutsche Jugend Voran members, four in Berlin-Marzahn and one in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
• Investigators are probing alleged robbery with extortion, dangerous bodily harm and use of unconstitutional symbols.
• The Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies the group as “gesichert rechtsextrem.”
• Police Union spokesperson Benjamin Jendro described Deutsche Jugend Voran as an “unsägliches Sammelsurium an Menschenfeinden” and urged all lawful measures to combat it.
• The raids build on nationwide crackdowns following the group’s violent disruptions of Christopher Street Day events and its social-media recruitment of young extremists.