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Alternative for Germany (AfD) party top target for political violence

RT News · · 337 words · By Russia Today
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11 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Almost two out of three violent attacks against politicians in Germany in 2025 targeted members of Alternative for Germany (AfD)”
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The claim is found in one specific web search result ('Most popular German party disproportionally targeted by violent attacks'), but no other independent news sources or official reports in the provided evidence corroborate this specific statistic for 2025.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The AfD Thuringia is the Thuringian state chapter of the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD). The state chapter is led by Björn Höcke and Stefan Möller as state chairmen and has been classif…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfD_Thuringia
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A large part of the right-wing populist German party Alternative for Germany (AfD) supports Russia, its foreign policy, and its allies. The AfD has been positioning itself for years in favor of close …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfD_pro-Russia_movement
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alternative for Germany (German: Alternative für Deutschland, AfD [aːʔɛfˈdeː] ) is a far-right, right-wing populist, national conservative, and völkisch nationalist political party in Germany. It has …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany
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“AfD politicians were targets in a total of 121 such cases last year”
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While there is a source mentioning AfD politicians being targeted, the specific number '121' for the year 2025 does not appear in the provided evidence.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The AfD Hamburg is the state association of the right-wing party Alternative for Germany (German: Alternative für Deutschland) in the German city Hamburg. The state association is led by politician Di…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfD_Hamburg
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Europe of Sovereign Nations Group (ESN; French: L'Europe des Nations Souveraines, ENS; German: Europa der Souveränen Nationen) is a far-right political group in the European Parliament, formed on …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe_of_Sovereign_Nations_Gr…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The "Brandmauer" or the “firewall against the far-right" in Germany is a strategy of noncooperation and deplatforming by mainstream political parties and others within German society to suppress the g…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall_against_the_far-right…
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“The party was also the most frequent target of non-violent politically motivated offenses”
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The claim that AfD was the most frequent target of non-violent politically motivated offenses is mentioned in one web search result ('Most popular German party disproportionally targeted by violent...'), but is not corroborated by other sources.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The AfD Thuringia is the Thuringian state chapter of the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD). The state chapter is led by Björn Höcke and Stefan Möller as state chairmen and has been classif…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfD_Thuringia
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A large part of the right-wing populist German party Alternative for Germany (AfD) supports Russia, its foreign policy, and its allies. The AfD has been positioning itself for years in favor of close …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfD_pro-Russia_movement
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alternative for Germany (German: Alternative für Deutschland, AfD [aːʔɛfˈdeː] ) is a far-right, right-wing populist, national conservative, and völkisch nationalist political party in Germany. It has …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany
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“The total number of crimes committed against the AfD in 2025 surpassed 1,800”
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The provided evidence does not contain the figure '1,800' or any total count of crimes committed against the AfD in 2025.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The AfD Saxony is the state association of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the German state of Saxony. The state association is led by a member of the Landtag of Saxony named Jörg Urban. Th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfD_Saxony
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alice Elisabeth Weidel (German: [aˈliːs eˈliːzabɛt ˈvaɪdl̩]; born 6 February 1979) is a German far-right politician who has been serving as co-chairwoman of the far-right, völkisch nationalist Alterna…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Weidel
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alternative for Germany (German: Alternative für Deutschland, AfD [aːʔɛfˈdeː] ) is a far-right, right-wing populist, national conservative, and völkisch nationalist political party in Germany. It has …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany
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“Some 60% of violent politically-motivated crimes were committed by “left-wing” suspects”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of dictionary definitions of the word 'approximately' and general info about Germany, but no data regarding the percentage of crimes committed by left-wing suspects in 2025.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025–26 NBA season is the 80th season of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The regular season began on October 21, 2025 and ended on April 12, 2026. The third edition of the in-season NBA…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–26_NBA_season
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Western and Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north with the Alps to the south. Its sixteen c…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The official language of Germany is German, with approximately 88 percent of the country speaking Standard German or a dialect of German as their first language. Recognized minority languages have off…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Germany
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“Only 11% of offenses were reportedly attributed to right-wing suspects”
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The provided evidence mentions a 40% rise in politically motivated crime in 2024 and that right-wing extremists accounted for nearly 50% of those crimes, but it does not mention an 11% figure for 2025.
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web search NEUTRAL — The 2025 election took place seven months ahead of schedule due to the 2024 collapse of the Scholz governing coalition. Following the loss of his majority, the chancellor called and intentionally lost…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_German_federal_election
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web search NEUTRAL — Number of criminal offenses that were right-wing and politically motivated in Germany from 2005 to 2023. Share this statistic.They are thus statistically recorded as soon as they are first suspected. …
https://www.statista.com/statistics/932799/right-wing-politi…
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web search NEUTRAL — Germany recorded a 40% rise in politically motivated crime in 2024 compared to the year before , according to figures released Tuesday. Of the total figure, 42,788 were right-wing extremist, amounting…
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-updates-sharp-rise-in-politica…
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“The police also recorded 1,171 crimes against Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU)”
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The provided evidence mentions the CDU and Friedrich Merz, but does not mention the specific figure of 1,171 crimes against the CDU in 2025.
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web search NEUTRAL — The CDU leads the federal government in a grand coalition with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), after returning as the largest party in the 2025 federal election. It previously led the fe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union_of_…
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web search NEUTRAL — Authorities recorded a total of 85,837 politically motivated crimes in 2025, up 2% from 2024 – making it the highest figure since the joint federal-state survey began in 2001.Since 2015 alone, the num…
https://farsnews.ir/Mousavi_82/1776423560815607088/Report-Po…
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web search NEUTRAL — Germany has recorded a sharp rise in politically motivated crime, according to new figures. Natalie Pawlik, the government commissioner for anti-racism, decried a "dramatic" increase in racist, antise…
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-updates-sharp-rise-in-politica…
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“The number of crimes against the CDU more than doubled in comparison to 2024, when there were just 420”
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The provided evidence does not mention the figures 420 or any specific doubling of crimes against the CDU between 2024 and 2025.
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web search NEUTRAL — Consequently, a grand coalition with the SPD took over government under CDU Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger.As a conservative party, the CDU supports stronger punishments of crimes and involvement on …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union_of_…
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web search NEUTRAL — 02/02/2025 February 2, 2025. The rally in the German capital comes in the wake of the conservative CDU/CSU leaning on the support of the far-right AfD in parliament to push through a migration bill. P…
https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-160000-protest-against-cdu-afd-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Over the weekend tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Aachen, Augsburg, Braunschweig, Bremen, Cologne, Essen, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Würzburg and a number of smaller cit…
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/berlin-1600…
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“only 12 were violent [crimes against the CDU]”
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No evidence was provided for this claim.
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“The right-wing party professes an anti-immigration platform and opposes Berlin’s sanctions on Russia”
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Wikipedia entries confirm that the AfD is a far-right party and that a large part of the party supports Russia and its foreign policy, which aligns with the claim of opposing sanctions on Russia.
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“The AfD has nevertheless surpassed the CDU in terms of public support, becoming the most popular party in Germany, according to a poll last month”
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