Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution: Saar Interior Minister: Threats overlap

The Saarland Interior Minister Reinhold Jost (SPD) has expressed concern about the various threats to internal security in the country. “We are experiencing a situation in which internal and external threats are increasingly overlapping,” he said at the presentation of the 2025 Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution report. “On the one hand, right-wing extremism, left-wing extremism and Islamist terrorism are challenging us from within. On the other hand, espionage, sabotage, cyber attacks and targeted disinformation campaigns by foreign intelligence services are increasing noticeably.

The “biggest threat to the free, democratic basic order continues to come from right-wing extremism,” said Natalie Grandjean, who has been at the head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution alongside Ulrich Pohl since June. The number of identified and suspected right-wing extremists in Saarland increased from around 370 in the previous year to around 410 people at the end of 2025, of which around 10 percent are classified as violence-oriented.

The number of right-wing extremist-motivated crimes in Saarland rose from 477 to 491 cases. The number of violent crimes included has “increased significantly” to 32 cases and has almost doubled compared to the previous year with 17 cases.