{"id":602031,"date":"2025-11-29T21:08:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T21:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/602031\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T21:08:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T21:08:19","slug":"rallies-against-new-far-right-afd-youth-group-dw-11-29-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/602031\/","title":{"rendered":"Rallies against new far-right AfD youth group \u2013 DW \u2013 11\/29\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>11\/29\/2025November 29, 2025AfD youth party founding convention in Giessen draws protests<\/p>\n<p>A two-day founding convention of young members of the far-right political party <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/alternative-for-germany-afd\/t-17455253\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alternative for Germany (AfD)<\/a> is drawing a massive crowd of opponents to the central German city of Giessen, a university town of 90,000 in the state of Hesse.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/germanys-far-right-afd-replaces-young-alternative-group\/a-71278353\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Young Alternative<\/a>,&#8221; the AfD&#8217;s prior youth group, was disbanded after <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/german-intelligence-classifies-afd-youth-wing-as-extremist\/a-65439622\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Germany&#8217;s domestic intelligence services labeled it a &#8220;proven right-wing extremist&#8221;<\/a> organization.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday morning, police reported clashes with protesters who had set up roadblocks and were &#8220;massively&#8221; affecting traffic around the city.<\/p>\n<p>In one instance, protesters used a bus to block entry and exit to a roundabout, quickly creating traffic chaos. Police described an &#8220;active situation with many different locations.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Freeways and other major thoroughfares were affected all around the city they said.<\/p>\n<p><img data-format=\"MASTER_LANDSCAPE\" data-id=\"74949594\" data-url=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/74949594_${formatId}.jpg\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\" alt=\"Police stare down masked protesters with yellow safety vests as they sit on hay bales in front of a white van as they block a road under a small overpass \u2014 the words 'No AfD' are taped onto the side of the van and an anti-fascist flag flies on top of it \" style=\"padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; max-height: 0;\"\/>Protesters have managed to delay the start of the AfD youth conventions by blocking access to the cityImage: Tilman Blasshofer\/REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>Police said officers used pepper spray after being pelted with rocks in the early morning hours.<\/p>\n<p>Some groups announced their intention to keep AfD members from entering Giessen&#8217;s convention hall in order to stop them from founding the new group.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the group confirmed that the start of the convention had been delayed.<\/p>\n<p>The new organization, tipped to be called &#8220;Generation Germany,&#8221; is to be headed by <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/afd-youth-a-training-ground-for-germanys-far-right\/a-74934896\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jean-Pascal Hohm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Domestic intelligence services in the eastern state of Brandenburg, where Hohm serves as a state representative, say that he, too, is &#8220;confirmed right-wing extremist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hesse&#8217;s Interior Minister Roman Poseck says police are preparing for a &#8220;challenging large-scale situation&#8221;\u00a0in Giessen.<\/p>\n<p>Several thousand police officers from all 16 German states, as well as federal police forces, are expected to be on duty Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>More than 20 protests were registered with the city and organizers of the three biggest have complained that the city has &#8220;banished democratic protesters&#8221; to one side of the Lahn River and is allowing &#8220;fascists&#8221; to convene in peace on the other.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img data-format=\"MASTER_LANDSCAPE\" data-id=\"74949360\" data-url=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/74949360_${formatId}.jpg\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\" alt=\"Protesters march against the formation of a new AfD youth group in the city of Giessen\" style=\"padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; max-height: 0;\"\/>Police expect upwards of 50,000 protesters to show up in Giessen (population ca. 90,000) on SaturdayImage: Kirill Kudryavtsev\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"11\/29\/2025November 29, 2025AfD youth party founding convention in Giessen draws protests A two-day founding convention of young members&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-602031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115635034683981884","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}