“BBC interviewed CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler in a Newshour segment on February 24, 2025. The interview, on the security situation in Germany, starts at the 39:00 mark.”

“There are numerous AfD advertising items on Amazon – right next to fan material for right-wing extremists. Experts consider this form of election advertising to be highly problematic. Berlin – Shortly before the federal election, the online mail order company Amazon is being flooded with AfD promotional items . There are numerous T-shirts and hoodies with the party logo, buttons and stickers with slogans. We reported on AfD merchandise on Amazon a year ago, but one shop suddenly disappeared during our research . But new ones have been added: Often, shipping is done directly via the Amazon service “Merch on Demand”… Articles from other parties cannot be found on Amazon. Experts are extremely critical of this particular form of election advertising. Extremism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler, director of the Counter Extremism Project, told our editorial team: "The AfD is pursuing a normalization strategy. The technical term for remigration is 'ethnic cleansing'. And now the party is using it officially and it is being printed on merchandise. That is more than worrying."”

“German media are reporting that immigrants who allegedly had contacts with Russia could have been behind the recent attacks. However, experts currently have no evidence to confirm their suspicions. "Russia is paying knife-wielding people to break up societies in the West with attacks," Aleksandra Fedorska, editor-in-chief of the Radio Debata agency, commented on the German media reports… It's quite possible, we had the right premises– said Hans Jakob Schindler, director of the non-governmental organization Counter Extremism Project. However, according to the expert on terrorism and the Middle East, this cannot be proven at the moment.”

“... Hans-Jakob Schindler is aware of the theory of Russian agents in Afghanistan. "That is entirely possible, we had corresponding indications," said the director of the NGO Counter Extremism Project (CEP) in an interview with this editorial team. However, this cannot currently be proven, said the terrorism expert. But Russia's aim is to cause social unrest in Germany. Acts of violence shortly before important elections would suit the Russians well, explains Schindler: "However, attacks cannot be timed precisely. For that to happen, Russia would have to intervene directly with the perpetrator in question." If there had been direct Russian intervention, "this should have been noticed during the investigations into the attacks of the last few months."”