Free Speech under Massive Attack in Germany: Police Raids, Violent Attacks, Antifa Threaten to CAPSIZE Cruise Ship Rented by Conservatives
As the EU faces a deadline July 9 for trade negotiations with the USA, Germany continues to crack down on conservative media, politicians and activists. Attacks on AfD politicians and right-wing activists are a daily occurrence, arrests of violent Antifa are rare. Police raid average citizens and conservatives for “hate speech” instead. This weekend, conservative radio station Kontrafunk had to cancel a fundraising cruise after local Antifa threatened to capsize the ship.
On February 14th, 2025, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance gave his famous speech at the Munich Security Conference, warning of “a retreat of Europe” from “our shared democratic values.” In today’s Europe, “digital censorship is billed as a defense of democracy,” Vance charged.
On March 3, FCC Chairman Brendan Car criticized the European Union’s “content moderation law” as “incompatible with America’s free speech tradition and warned of a risk that it will excessively restrict freedom of expression,” Reuters reported.
On May 28, citing “troubling instances of foreign governments and foreign officials (taking) flagrant censorship actions against U.S. tech companies and U.S. citizens, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a new visa restriction policy “that will apply to foreign nationals who are responsible for censorship of protected expression in the United States.”
EU head Ursula von der Leyen had to ask for an extension of the moratorium on President Donald Trump’s proposed 50% tariff on imports from the European Union, which he initially threatened would go into effect on June 1. The moratorium is set to expire July 9.
As the EU tries to hammer out a deal with the USA, the largest EU country, Germany, continues to crack down on free speech and the political opposition in ever more militant fashion.
On June 24, George Orwell’s birthday, German police exercised 65 warrants in 180 police measures nationwide “against criminal hate postings and online hate crime,” the Federal Criminal Office (BKA) said. The Federal police could not tell us the results of these raids, how many charges were pressed, or how many innocents were raided. The raids were conducted together with state-run “hate hotlines” Hesse against Hate and Hotline Respect, which report to the BKA’s Central Hotline for Online Hate ZMI.
🇩🇪 GERMANY RAIDS 170 HOMES IN MASSIVE ONLINE "HATE SPEECH" CRACKDOWN
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) June 25, 2025
German police stormed homes nationwide, targeting citizens accused of posting hateful or inflammatory comments online.
Interior Minister Herbert Reul says "digital arsonists" won't hide behind keyboards… https://t.co/osrsUpoxXI pic.twitter.com/vDLJRWbcSd
Gateway Pundit spoke to two activists of the right-wing Identitarian Movement who were raided by police on June 24, because they had attended a “Remigration Summit” in Milano, Italy on May 16 (Gateway Pundit reported). At 6 a.m. on June 24, police raided the parents’ house of 21-year old Eric outside Nuremberg, and the Munich frat house of 22-year-old Adrian Segner, allegedly searching for evidence they had attended the Milano summit (even though they posted pictures of themselves there).
Eric saw three reasons behind the raids: “Firstly, intimidation. It’s just not a good feeling having five officers standing around your bed, waking you up; secondly, handicapping you by seizing your communications, which is especially rough on an IT engineer like me. You’re completely cut off from the outside world without your electronic devices; and thirdly, the stab-in-the-dark: they’re hoping they might fight something criminal by accident.” Eric believes the reason given on the search warrant, trying to prove his attendance at the Milan conference, was just a pretext to be able to conduct the raid.
Adrian recounted how 20 to 30 armed police surrounded and stormed the “Danubia” frat house in Munich’s university quarter, breaking down his door at 6 a.m. on Tuesday, June 24. “About a quarter of the officers were plainclothes, and there were three or four armored riot squad officers – as if they were expecting us to fight back – a state prosecutor and two squad leaders: One for my room and one for the frat house. After they searched my room and didn’t find anything, they gave up pretty quickly. I think the squad leader realized how ridiculous it was,” Adrian said. “It was 100% intimidation”, Adrian said. “I was shocked at how pointless it was.”
On July 1st, two Berlin council members of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Thorsten Weiss and Alexander Bertram, wanted to give a press conference about the need for more security in Berlin’s notorious Görlitz Park drug-dealing hot spot, but the two local politicians were mobbed by violent gang of “Anti” fascists shouting “Run them over!” and had to be evacuated by police escort.
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