Overview
- The State Department announced SDGT listings for Antifa Ost alongside groups from Italy and Greece, with Foreign Terrorist Organization status planned starting November 20.
- The designations impose U.S. entry bans, freeze any U.S.-based assets and make material support by U.S. persons a criminal offense.
- Washington cites alleged assaults by the so‑called Hammerbande from 2018 to 2023, including coordinated attacks in Budapest in February 2023.
- Parallel prosecutions continue in Europe, with federal charges in Düsseldorf and cases before the Dresden higher regional court, plus a separate Budapest trial of Maja T.
- Civil‑rights groups and Germany’s domestic intelligence note Antifa’s diffuse structure, raising enforcement concerns, and Hungary already placed Antifa Ost on its national terror list in late September.