Germany’s Federal Attorney General (GBA) – an agency charged with investigating the most serious attacks against the country’s domestic security – overwhelmingly dealt with threats from Islamist terrorists and foreign extremists in 2025.
Right-wing extremism only accounted for 3 per cent of all procedures, despite being consistently presented as the biggest threat to Germany by establishment politicians and media. Another two investigations were launched against left-wing extremists.
This was revealed by the German federal justice ministry in response to an inquiry by Martin Hess, an MP for Alternative for Germany (AfD), Germany’s main opposition party. Brussels Signal obtained a copy of the ministry’s statement yesterday.
According to the ministry, out of 300 investigations the GBA launched in the past year, 180 concerned Islamic terrorism.
Another 114 procedures fell under the remit of foreign extremism. Together, these two categories accounted for 96 per cent of all investigations.
“The proceedings relating to Islamists mainly concern offences committed abroad in connection with the terrorist organisations Islamic State and the Taliban and have links to Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan,” the ministry wrote.
It added that a large number of the investigations was subsequently turned over to prosecutors in Germany’s 16 federal States as the offences were not deemed serious enough for the GBA.
Hess told Brussels Signal today that the numbers represent an indictment of Germany’s migration policy: “Over 96 per cent of GBA proceedings concern Islamism and foreign extremism.
“Both phenomena are directly linked to the irresponsible migration policies of the establishment parties. Those who, for years, have subordinated the security interests of their own population to their unrealistic ideology bear political responsibility for this unacceptable development,” he said.
“Since 2015 at the latest, foreign conflicts, Islamist extremism and terrorist structures have been brought to Germany and have been able to take root here.
“Instead of taking consistent countermeasures, the established parties have relativised the situation and focused almost exclusively on right-wing extremism,” Hess said.
He added that Germany needed an about-turn on migration policy.
“We need to clearly identify Islamism as a central threat and combats it effectively. This includes a zero-tolerance strategy: The deportation of foreign criminals and dangerous individuals, the consistent enforcement of applicable law, and the immediate closure of all security gaps,” Hess said.
