Wave of Far-left Violence Against AfD Alarms Even German Authorities
7th November 2025
Germany’s interior ministry has sounded the alarm over a growing threat to members of the right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), following a series of arson attacks and physical assaults carried out by far-left extremists.
In the latest incident, a car belonging to Bernd Baumann, the AfD’s parliamentary group leader, was set on fire outside his Hamburg home in the early hours of Monday morning. The blaze destroyed three nearby vehicles.
State security officials are investigating the attack as politically motivated, and an online statement posted on a far-left, Antifa-linked platform and ending with a death threat against Baumann and other AfD members is believed to be authentic.