Left-wing offenders accounted for most bodily harm cases, while offenders linked to 'foreign ideology' accounted for the largest share of violent offences. Right-wing offenders, meanwhile, were responsible for 150 of the 486 crimes against the media.
Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) recorded a total of 54 violent offences in 2025 in which the primary target was the media, including attacks on journalist. Of these, 41 were cases of bodily harm and 13 cases classified as resistance offences, a spokesperson for the Federal Criminal Police Office told Euronews.
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According to the statistics, perpetrators classified as having "foreign ideology" accounted for the largest share of these violent acts, with 26 cases in total, comprising all 13 resistance offences and 13 cases of bodily harm.
Within the left-wing spectrum, 15 violent offences were recorded, all of them cases of bodily harm. In the right-wing spectrum, the BKA registered nine violent offences, all involving bodily harm.
In total, the BKA recorded 486 criminal offences against the media in 2025. Of these, 181 could not be clearly assigned to any ideology. Among the cases that could be categorised, the largest share fell to the right-wing spectrum with 150 offences, followed by 102 cases linked to 'foreign ideology', 43 from the left-wing spectrum and 10 associated with a “religious ideology”.