The number of right-wing extremist incidents in schools in Brandenburg increased significantly in the 2022/2023 school year.
The four state school boards reported 70 such statements or incidents by early June, while 30 were counted throughout the 2021-2022 school year, the Department of Education said. The “Welt am Sonntag” previously reported. The Society of the Lausitz Economic Region was concerned about the development.
According to the list, which is also available to the German Press Agency, by June the Cottbus school authority reported the most right-wing extremist cases, at 27, and there were 3 in the entire 2021/2022 school year. The ministry pointed out that the 2021/2022 school year 2022 was still under the sign of the Corona crisis.
In Brandenburg, 15 antisemitic and 14 xenophobic and 4 other extremist statements and incidents were also counted in the 2021/2022 school year. In the 2022/2023 school year, the school authorities reported 6 anti-Semitic, 15 xenophobic and also 4 other extremist statements and incidents.
According to the Ministry of Education, the number of cases in which banned, unconstitutional symbols were used and incitement to hatred rose to 91 in 2022 after 55 in the Corona year 2021 in Thuringia’s schools but not school life.
