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

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.

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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.

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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.”

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