{"id":2506647,"date":"2025-11-04T17:33:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/antifa-claims-responsibility-for-arson-in-germany-invokes-kirk\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T17:34:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:34:40","slug":"antifa-claims-responsibility-for-arson-in-germany-invokes-kirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/antifa-claims-responsibility-for-arson-in-germany-invokes-kirk\/","title":{"rendered":"Antifa claims responsibility for arson in Germany, invokes Kirk"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fantifa-claims-responsibility-for-arson-in-germany-invokes-kirk%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2506647&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Antifa has claimed duty for an arson attack on the car of Bernd Baumann, a senior member of Germany&#8217;s right-wing Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (afd) party, in hamburg. The firebombing occurred on November 3, 2025, outside Baumann&#8217;s home, destroying his BMW and damaging nearby vehicles. A radical left-wing blog posted the claim, issuing a threat against supporters of the American &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; (MAGA) movement, referencing the assassination of American conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The statement called on antifa activists to organize militantly in response to U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s designation of antifa as a domestic terrorist group. German authorities are investigating the incident as arson, wiht no suspects identified yet. The attack follows a series of deaths among AfD candidates ahead of local elections, which some skeptics find suspicious despite official explanations attributing the deaths to natural causes. The AfD is described as a populist right<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/naftali-bennet-sworn-in-as-israels-new-prime-minister\/\" title=\"Naftali Bennet sworn in as Israel\u2019s new prime minister\">-wing opposition party<\/a>, frequently enough labeled &#8220;neo-Nazi&#8221; by opponents for its hardline stance on migration, which parallels some U.S. Republican views. The report also highlights the growing scrutiny of antifa&#8217;s international links as the Trump administration considers designating overseas antifa networks as terrorist organizations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">&lsquo;MAGA freaks &hellip; follow Kirk to hell&rsquo;: Antifa claims responsibility for arson attack in Germany<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2234547\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/antifa\">Antifa<\/a> has claimed responsibility for the firebombing of a top right-wing politician&rsquo;s car in Hamburg, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Germany\">Germany<\/a>, and issued an accompanying threat against &ldquo;MAGA freaks&rdquo; that invoked the assassination of American conservative activist <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/charlie-kirk\">Charlie Kirk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Following an apparent arson attack on Monday morning on the vehicle of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3399059\/german-intelligence-designates-afd-extremist-group\/\">Alternative f&uuml;r Deutschland<\/a> senior member Bernd Baumann, an antifa-affiliated blog published a message confessing to torching the car.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3874166\/germany-friedrich-merz-ends-asylum-syrian-refugees-deportations\/\">German chancellor ends asylum for Syrian refugees and warns of deportations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3873443\/hamas-returns-body-american-israeli-idf-soldier-omer-neutra\/\">Hamas returns body of American Israeli IDF captain<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3873317\/suspect-arrested-mass-stabbing-attack-london-train\/\">Suspect arrested over mass stabbing attack on London-bound train<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;Fiery greetings to the accused, imprisoned, and underground Antifas!&rdquo; the anonymously written <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/kontrapolis.info\/16811\/\">blog post<\/a> began, according to an English translation. &ldquo;On the night of November 3, 2025, we destroyed the BMW of Bernd Baumann, manager of the AfD parliamentary group, with an incendiary device.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"de\" dir=\"ltr\">In Hamburg ist in der Nacht zu Montag das Auto des AfD-Politikers Dr. Bernd Baumann vor seinem Wohnhaus in Brand gesetzt worden. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MuFc4HD0M8\">https:\/\/t.co\/MuFc4HD0M8<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fsZTYLwpp0\">pic.twitter.com\/fsZTYLwpp0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NIUS (@niusde_) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/niusde_\/status\/1985320399492562946?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The claim of responsibility, posted in German on the radical left-wing website Indymedia, also threatened those supporting the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/make-america-great-again\/\">Make America Great Again<\/a> movement in America, suggesting that they will be murdered like Kirk.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;All you damn MAGA freaks, you will follow Kirk to hell,&rdquo; said an excerpt of the statement, which was the sole sentence written in English.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, the 300-word post cited President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump&rsquo;s<\/a> designation of antifa as a domestic terrorism organization and his deployment of federal troops to quell the antifa-led uprisings against <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ICE\/\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a>. &ldquo;Antifa has been placed on the list of &lsquo;terrorist&rsquo; adversaries,&rdquo; the statement continued, before calling on antifa&rsquo;s forces to &ldquo;organize militantly&rdquo; in response.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/3843239\/antifa-leaders-flee-america\/\">ANTIFA LEADERS FLEE AMERICA AS TRUMP CRACKS DOWN ON DOMESTIC TERRORIST NETWORKS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;[When] the U.S. president babbles about loving the smell of deportations in the morning and deploys the military against anti-racist protest and resistance,&rdquo; the call-to-action read, &ldquo;it is urgently necessary to organize militantly against fascism.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The cross-pollination of European and American antifa is under increasing scrutiny in the United States, as the Trump administration takes steps to classify antifa abroad as a foreign terrorist threat.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. intelligence officials are <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/3822722\/antifa-terrorist-designation-ties-to-international-network\/\">reportedly<\/a> examining antifa&rsquo;s transnational ties. At the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/news\/white-house\/\">White House<\/a> roundtable on antifa last month, Trump prodded panelists about their thoughts on a terrorism classification for overseas antifa operations.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Would you like to see it done? You think it would help?&rdquo; Trump asked attendees. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d be glad to do it. I think it&rsquo;s the kind of thing I&rsquo;d like to do. Does everybody agree? If you agree, I agree. Let&rsquo;s get it done.&rdquo; Trump then turned to Secretary of State <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/marco-rubio\/\">Marco Rubio<\/a>, the issuing authority for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-trumps-terrorism-declaration-could-affect-antifa\/\" title=\"How ...&#039;s terrorism declaration could affect ...\">foreign terrorist designations<\/a>, telling him, &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll take care of that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Monday&rsquo;s communiqu&eacute; on the alleged arson came approximately 12 hours after a car belonging to Baumann, the AfD&rsquo;s secretary <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3358438\/afd-lawmakers-germany-unwelcoming-bundestag\/\">in the Bundestag<\/a>, Germany&rsquo;s lower house of parliament, was set ablaze overnight around 3:20 a.m. outside the lawmaker&rsquo;s Hamburg home. By the time firefighters responded, Baumann&rsquo;s BMW was already engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n<p>A <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/nordot.app\/1358096187567735028\">video<\/a> provided by Baumann&rsquo;s office to Deutsche Presse-Agentur, a Hamburg-based press agency, shows three burnt-out cars and a BMW with significant signs of fire damage. The fire is believed to have spread to the other cars parked nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are treating the case as a suspected act of arson. Germany&rsquo;s state security service, the government branch responsible for handling politically motivated crimes, is investigating the incident. So far, no suspects have been identified.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Supporters of the AfD party gather a week after the murder of a police officer by an Afghan immigrant, in Mannheim, Germany, on June 7, 2024. (Thomas Lohnes\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The attack targeting Baumann follows a series of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3791131\/seven-german-afd-politicians-dead-within-weeks-ahead-of-elections\/\">AfD candidate deaths<\/a> occurring within weeks of each other ahead of local elections in September.<\/p>\n<p>German police, however, dismissed suspicions of foul play, saying that some of the seven dead AfD politicians suffered from preexisting medical conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Skeptics, such as German economist Stefan Homburg, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SHomburg\/status\/1961508144322154814\">called<\/a> their deaths &ldquo;statistically almost impossible,&rdquo; an assessment amplified by AfD cochairwoman Alice Weidel.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/3822722\/antifa-terrorist-designation-ties-to-international-network\/\"><strong>ANTIFA MAINTAINS TIES TO INTERNATIONAL NETWORK, AS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION EYES FOREIGN TERRORIST DESIGNATION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AfD is a populist right<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >-wing opposition party gaining ground<\/a> in Germany. Despite its <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3374803\/afd-becomes-most-popular-party-germany-first-time\/\">growing popularity<\/a>, the party&rsquo;s political opponents malign AfD as a fringe &ldquo;neo-Nazi&rdquo; movement for the group&rsquo;s positions on mass migration, which are largely in line with mainstream Republican views toward illegal immigration in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Antifa in the U.S., whose European <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3493802\/antifa-organization-movement-has-metastasized\/\">origins<\/a> were born out of an affront to Nazi-controlled Germany, has likewise likened conservatives to Nazis as a pretext for political violence. According to authorities investigating Kirk&rsquo;s assassination, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3805222\/antifascist-sayings-written-charlie-kirk-shooter-bullet-casings\/\">antifascist sayings<\/a> were inscribed on the shooter&rsquo;s bullet casings, such as &ldquo;Hey, fascist! Catch!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAGA freaks\u2026 follow Kirk to hell&#8217;: Antifa claims arson in Germany<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3767,"featured_media":2506648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/zumaamericasfortynine074707.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[14436,3802,13856,3946,10384],"class_list":["post-2506647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-activism","tag-antifa","tag-arson","tag-germany","tag-kirk"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/zumaamericasfortynine074707.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2506647"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2506651,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506647\/revisions\/2506651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2506648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2506647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2506647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2506647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}