Incitement To Murder: German Police Investigate Far-Left Youth Over Targeting of Alice Weidel
4th October 2025
A scandal is rocking Germany: members of the youth wing of the Die Linke (The Left) party (Linksjugend) in Hanover distributed stickers featuring Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) co-leader Alice Weidel with a sniper’s crosshair over her head and the English caption “Aim Here.”
Lower Saxony police confirmed they have opened an investigation on charges of “public incitement to commit crimes and threats” after images of the stickers circulated on social media and AfD representatives filed a formal complaint.
Far from a fringe act of vandalism, the stickers bore the official logo of the radical leftist party’s youth branch, raising serious concerns about growing political radicalization.
The episode inevitably recalls the recent assassination of U.S. commentator Charlie Kirk, which the same Hanover group celebrated online with posts such as: “With a targeted shot to Kirk’s neck, the end of his inhumane policies was sealed.”
That the same aesthetic has now been deployed against an elected German politician marks a dangerous escalation in symbolic violence. What was once associated with loosely organized groups such as Antifa is now coming directly from an official youth organization tied to a parliamentary party.