A number of Germany’s states are recording an increase in extremist offences at schools, according to the Welt am Sonntag newspaper. Six of the 16 states confirmed an increase in such incidents to the paper, including a threefold jump to 180 offences in Brandenburg outside the capital Berlin, compared with the previous school year. This is followed by Saxony, also in the country’s east, where there were 150 cases in the past calendar year and 90 in the previous year. The number of extremist incidents in the central state of Hesse tripled to 35 in 2023 compared with the previous year. In the fi…