Authorities in Berlin on Monday accused protesters at pro-Palestinian demonstrations in the city of increasingly using children and young people to incite the crowd. “It is now becoming increasingly common for minors to be misused to shout slogans at demonstrations and to incite people on a massive scale,” Berlin’s local interior minister, Iris Spranger, told a committee of Berlin lawmakers concerned with extremism and other security threats on Monday. This is “deliberately used as a means by those who want to spread hatred and incitement,” she said. Spranger acknowledged that images from the …