Police and authorities are monitoring calls for demonstrations for October 31st

While the protests in France are leading to riots, an initiative in Germany is also calling for demonstrations on October 31st. Police and authorities are monitoring the situation and exchanging information

Planned day of protest on October 31st Security authorities alerted by calls for demos As of: October 21st, 2026 • 6:57 p.m

In Germany, too, an initiative is calling on young people to protest. There will be demonstrations nationwide on October 31st. Police and authorities are monitoring the situation and exchanging information with France and Italy.

Security authorities and politicians are watching with concern calls for demonstrations aimed at young people on October 31st. The federal and state governments exchange information closely, said a spokesman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior - for example in the joint extremism and counter-terrorism center. “Risk assessments are carried out on an ongoing basis, also in close coordination with our partners, for example France and Italy.”

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution is increasing its monitoring of relevant websites and social media channels on which calls for violent protests may be spread, said the spokesman. As usual, the federal police can support the state police in the context of administrative assistance. If necessary, they will also turn back people at the border who want to enter Germany to take part in violent riots.

At the same time, the spokesman emphasized that a distinction must be made between peaceful and violent protests. "On the one hand there are peaceful student protests and on the other hand there is a violent extremist scene that potentially uses such protests to spread violence."

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An online initiative is calling for demos called “GenZ regulates” or “GenZ stands up”. Among other things, she advocates for more climate protection, for measures against rising living costs and against compulsory military service. She expressly rejects violence.

It is difficult to estimate how powerful the mobilization for October 31st actually is. According to information on the website, a total of more than 10,000 people in 21 cities have currently registered to take part in one of the demonstrations.

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Hesse's Interior Minister Roman Poseck said that the security authorities were already "firmly eyeing" the date. The Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior announced that the police were sensitized and that the development was being monitored critically.

“We have to be very careful that radical forces do not hijack democratic protest, as in France, and use it to live out violent fantasies, abuse the freedom of assembly and feed the narrative of an anti-citizen police force,” explained the head of the Berlin Police Union (GdP), Stephan Weh. The protest falls on Halloween night, when “pyrotechnics are often used on our streets.”

The GdP chairman for the federal police department, Andreas Roßkopf, announced a consistent approach in the event of riots. “The state and federal police forces will take massive and consistent action against this,” he told the “Rheinische Post”. He also warned that radicals and extremists could mingle with the demonstrators, attack police officers "with violence and brutality" and "just want to destroy."

The protests started by students in France against abuses in the education sector have shifted to other topics in recent weeks. Last weekend, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across the country, and there were also serious riots.