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Why German youth embrace violence and extremism
Deutche Welle ^ | November 29, 2025 | By Marcel Fürstenau

Posted on 11/29/2025 8:51:48 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

In 2023, a 15- and a 17-year-old plotted to attack a Christmas market in Leverkusen (North Rhine-Westphalia). In online chats, the two supporters of the "Islamic State" (IS), considered a terrorist organization by German domestic intelligence, plotted to kill as many people as possible by driving a truck into the crowd of revellers. Two days before the planned attack, the teenagers were arrested after police had become aware of their online chats. The minors were sentenced to four years in prison in 2024.

Cases like this are increasingly worrying German security authorities. The Federal Criminal Police (BKA) has for years been recording an increase in violent crime . The number of juvenile suspects under the age of 18 has increased by almost a third since 2019, and the number of suspects under the age of 14 has even risen by two-thirds in the same period.

In its latest Police Crime Statistics (PKS) report, the BKA notes some possible reasons for this development: "There are indications that psychological stress among children and adolescents has been increasing for several years. While psychological stress is not a direct cause of criminal behavior, in combination with other adverse factors, it can increase the likelihood of committing (violent) crimes."

Such "adverse factors" include violence within the family, lack of parental affection, poverty, and anxiety triggered by multiple crises such as war, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afd; aliens; antifa; deutschewelle; europe; germany; islam; marcelfurstenau; russiantrollfarm; sharia; violence; whyembraceantifa
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1 posted on 11/29/2025 8:51:48 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Like father like son?


2 posted on 11/29/2025 8:53:38 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“Why German youth”

They are not German.

3 posted on 11/29/2025 8:55:01 AM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Jim W N

The Mohammed Youth.


4 posted on 11/29/2025 8:55:12 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt (Fascist, deplorable, and proud of it!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Article:

“climate change” causes violence.

You can’t make up this stuff.

There are no limits to leftist insanity.


5 posted on 11/29/2025 8:55:52 AM PST by cgbg (The master is nice only when the dog behaves as expected.)
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To: Deaf Smith
This is more like German Youth these days.


6 posted on 11/29/2025 8:56:50 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Jim W N

That’s Germans, every few generations or so they turn psycho.


7 posted on 11/29/2025 8:58:33 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The author is an idiot. But he’s right about one thing, just not in the way he thinks.

It is a youth problem. Many studies have shown that the children of Muslim immigrants are, in general, more radical than their parents.

So buckle up, Germany (and the entire West). This ride is just beginning.

Oh, and here’s one such study, out of the UK.

https://www.thetrumpet.com/3368-british-muslim-youth-more-radical


8 posted on 11/29/2025 9:00:41 AM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: traderrob6

That’s Germans, every few generations or so they turn psycho.


Once all the Germans were warlike and mean,
But that couldn’t happen again.
We taught them a lesson in 1918
And they’ve hardly bothered us since then.

-Tom Lehrer


9 posted on 11/29/2025 9:00:44 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
--- ".... supporters of the 'Islamic State'...."

Years ago, there were paid adverts in bus stops, two meter high signs messaging to the populace that "Mohammad" was a German name. The "world" diversity cult and Merkel's "wir schaffen es" lunacy is now to the point one cans assert ---

"Support of the Islamic State is German."

Note the article and so many more are trying to turn the discussion to "psychological stress" rather than the cult of Islam is to blame. Lunacy. The same messaging is found across Europe.

One does not coexist with a cult whose foundational statement is "supremacy" through submission. One can only fight or lose.

Deutsche Welle's editors think "lose" is a liberal choice. And thereby the prophecy self-fulfills.

10 posted on 11/29/2025 9:06:46 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“German” youth...Mohammed and Ahmad.


11 posted on 11/29/2025 9:07:25 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

German youth, or Islamic youth who happen to be in Germany?


12 posted on 11/29/2025 9:10:39 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
German youth have always embraced violence and extremism... Remember World War 1 when Germany decided to take on... The rest of the world... And then World War 2 where they decided to take on... The rest of the world... Again!


13 posted on 11/29/2025 9:15:19 AM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Ancesthntr

The latter.

“The young men planning the attack in Leverkusen had an Afghan and a Chechen background.”


14 posted on 11/29/2025 9:20:05 AM PST by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: Deaf Smith

They must be related to the “Maryland dad”


15 posted on 11/29/2025 9:23:39 AM PST by nhbob1
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To: dfwgator

Would you like to touch my monkey?


16 posted on 11/29/2025 9:27:42 AM PST by pburiak (You really think we can vote our way out of this? That's so cute...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I'm sure glad that the American youth don't have any problems with violence or extremism.

It would make it much harder for us to point at other countries for the problems with their youths.

17 posted on 11/29/2025 9:44:26 AM PST by Captain Walker ("Justice exalteth a nation: but sin maketh nations miserable." – Proverbs 14:34)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If you can’t even name the enemy, you can’t stop the enemy.


18 posted on 11/29/2025 9:45:29 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Cases like this are increasingly worrying German security authorities.”

Are they more worried about the number of immigrants or the impact on the growth of the Afd?


19 posted on 11/29/2025 9:53:30 AM PST by alternatives?
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

islam is the problem.

L


20 posted on 11/29/2025 9:54:37 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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