Sources: Deutsche Welle
Two people are killed and 22 others are injured, including two seriously, after a car was driven into a crowd of people in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. The perpetrator is arrested and the incident is being investigated. 2026-05-4
The United States declares four Antifa groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, including the Germany-based Antifa Ost, who was involved in the attempted murder of three neo-Nazi individuals in Saxony and Thuringia. The U.S. government is also pursuing action against three other antifa groups in Italy and Greece, including the Informal Anarchist Federation. 2025-11-14
Two people are severely injured in a stabbing attack at an Aldi supermarket in Rochlitz, Saxony, Germany. 2025-04-17
At least 12,000 people gather in Riesa, Saxony, Germany, to protest an Alternative for Germany convention as well as the party's far-right views. 2025-01-11
Seven men from the "Saxonian Separatists" group are arrested in Germany and another is arrested in Poland for plotting ethnic cleansing terrorist attacks and for plotting to take control of several areas of Saxony. 2024-11-5
Parliamentary elections in the German states of Saxony and Thuringia show large gains for the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany party and the left-wing populist Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht party as well as losses for the left-wing and liberal parties of the governing coalition and for the socialist The Left party. In Thuringia, a far-right party comes in first place in a state election for the first time since World War II. 2024-09-1
Four people are killed and 35 others are injured after a double-decker FlixBus overturns and crashes on the Bundesautobahn 9 near Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. 2024-03-27
German authorities recover 31 royal jewellery items that were stolen from the Green Vault museum at Dresden Castle in Dresden, Saxony, Germany, in 2019. 2022-12-17
A Syrian man is jailed for manslaughter in relation to a stabbing in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany last year. The killing sparked far-right protests and riots in the city. 2019-08-22
Xenophobic mob blocks a refugee bus in Clausnitz, German state of Saxony. 2016-02-18