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
German public prosecutors charge eight suspected members of a far-right group who plan to secede from Saxony to create a Nazi state after the group were discovered in 2024 to be conducting paramilitary training and amassing weapons. One of the men was a former AfD local politician. 2025-09-10
Two people are severely injured in a stabbing attack at an Aldi supermarket in Rochlitz, Saxony, Germany. 2025-04-17
Belarusian independent news outlet "Reform.news" reports that Jörg Dornau, an Alternative for Germany member of the Saxony parliament, has allegedly used political prisoners as labor on a Belarusian onion plantation owned by his agricultural firm. 2024-09-24
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
The Landtag of the Free State of Saxony has lifted the immunity of Frauke Petry, Party Chair in the Alternative for Germany party, opening the way for prosecutors to pursue possible perjury charges against her concerning statements made to a committee of the Saxony parliament about how the party’s campaign for the 2014 election was financed. 2017-08-29
A planned refugee shelter is set on fire in Bautzen, German state of Saxony. 2016-02-20