A student of neo -Nazis is said to have been followed in the east of Berlin. He is concerned about the incident, but also draws a lot of strength from the solidarity of his environment.
The 16-year-old student Leon W. can still remember the occurrences from the night of Saturday, March 8. According to him, ten to fifteen alleged neo -Nazis chased him and two of his friends through a street in Hohenschönhausen. W., who does not want to publish his last name, sees the trigger for this in his commitment to democracy projects at school.
W. describes the incident: He wanted to meet friends shortly before midnight. When he left the house, three people stared at him. He then asked his two friends to pick him up. Around 0 a.m. they took the street together. The three young people would have wanted to go to Weißensee with their bicycles. But the three men had stood again on the first street corner. Shortly thereafter, ten other people came along – according to W. everyone fully misses. “They rushed to us and started screaming something,” says the 16-year-old in an interview with T-Online.
The young people had fled. W. was jumped off the chain of his bike. He had to walk. “I ran for my life,” said the 16-year-old. On and on the site of their former primary school, the now separate young people had been looking for protection and called the police. W. himself stood on one side of the elementary school with a friend, while his other friend hid in the bushes. “At the same time, Nazis walked around somewhere in the neighborhood, some of which were felt twice as old and twice as wide as we do,” he says.
When asked, the police confirmed that there was such a mission around 1 o’clock that night. Three people would have stated by an emergency call to have been persecuted and threatened by ten to fifteen people. Advertisements were received, among other things, on suspicion of the threat. The authority had started the investigation on site and state security. The police did not provide any more information.
W., politically left -oriented, sees the attempted attack in response to his commitment to the green campus in Malchow. At school he attended eleventh grade. There he does a lot of political and democratic work. Among other things, he co -organized a general assembly on democracy issues in which the AfD was also questioned. “This did not feel like a classmate at our school, which are rather on the right,” says W., according to W. As a result, W. had already entered the target field of the alleged neo -Nazis before the attempted attack.
Among other things, flyers were distributed with its full name and with his cell phone number. A picture of it is t-online. On the note it says: “Know this links radicals” (sic!). In addition, W.’s name was sprayed with graffiti on his way to school – with the addition “die”.
“I think the right -wing are afraid that our work at school will take away their recruitment field for young cadres,” says W. “Radical rights are trying to specifically win students for martial art training and their ideas.”
The mobile advice center for right -wing extremism (MBR) in Berlin also sees this. Anna Schmidt is a lawyer and is active for the MBR. “In most cases, there is no convinced right-wing extremist adolescents at Berlin schools,” she says in T-Online in April 2024. “We are more likely to see a distance to the right -wing extremist ideology, coupled with the interest in provocation. If you do not do it, this can lead to an unpleasant to threatening climate in school. Right -wing extremists use this.
