AfD State Parliament Member Assaulted by Left-Wing Extremists Outside His Home

In Germany, Antifa groups are targeting AfD politicians and anyone suspected of affiliation to the party by increasingly violent means. Protesters take part in a demonstration outside the Hyparschale hall in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, venue of a regional congress of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, on April 11, 2026. - RONNY HARTMANN / AFP. Alternative für Deutschland’s (AfD) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state parliament member Michael Meister was brutally attacked outside his private residence in Rostock on Wednesday night, in what is being investigated as a politically motivated assault by suspected left-wing extremists. Meister said he first felt “pressure in his back”...