In view of the energy crisis and high inflation, Hamburg's head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Torsten Voss, has warned against extremists abusing "legitimate demonstrations". "We assume that extremist conspiracy ideologues and other enemies of the constitution, such as right-wing extremists and Reich citizens, will try to abuse these protests for their ideological purposes," Voss told the newspapers of the Funke media group (Tuesday). The gas crisis and inflation offer great mobilization potential.

He assumes that the milieu will try to use the infrastructure of the radical opponents of vaccination and corona deniers for the protests about the energy crisis in the fall. Saxony's protection of the constitution informed the Funke newspapers that extremist parties such as the "Freie Sachsen" were pursuing the goal of profiting from the social decline fears of the citizens and the effects of the sharply rising cost of living. "The corresponding fears and worries of the population are instrumentalized for their own anti-constitutional agenda."