Sources: Deutsche Welle
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
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
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
A planned refugee shelter is set on fire in Bautzen, German state of Saxony. 2016-02-20