The Anti-Discrimination Office (ADB) Saxony advised more people last year. In 2024, the advice center processed 581 cases of discrimination, according to the ADB. Compared to the previous year, the number increased by eleven percent. There was also an increase in ongoing cases, which are supported over several months, from 105 to 121 cases compared to 2023.
"People who are affected by discrimination are increasingly becoming the focus of populist propaganda and agitation - in Saxony even more so since the state elections last year," said Jan Diebold, Head of Anti-Discrimination Counselling at the ADB, according to the statement. "The increasingly brutal climate is playing its part in the fact that we are receiving more and more drastic cases, where we can hardly provide quick solutions, so we then have to accompany them for a long time."
Diebold also warned of the increasing pressure that organizations offering support are under. The insolvency of the umbrella association of Saxon migrant organizations is "a particularly drastic example with barely measurable, negative consequences for the member organizations and those affected".
