• German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul pledges solidarity with Jewish community leader Charlotte Knobloch following a death threat, emphasizing that Jews should never live in fear in Germany.
• Police launch an investigation into the death threat against Knobloch, which was discovered after she called for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to be banned.
• The threat against Knobloch, a former president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, was explicitly linked to the AfD's election victory in Saxony-Anhalt, prompting investigations into incitement to hatred, threats, and criminal damage.

Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul on Tuesday pledged the German government's solidarity with Jews living in Germany following a death threat against a leading community member.

Police said last week that an investigation has been launched into a death threat against Charlotte Knobloch, the 93-year-old leader of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria, after she called for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to be banned.

At a press conference alongside Bavarian Premier Markus Söder in Munich, Wadephul said: "Jews must never again live in fear in Germany."

He described the threats against Knobloch as abhorrent. The minister met with the Knobloch earlier on Tuesday and said the conversation moved him deeply.

Knobloch, a former president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, received the death threat following the AfD's election victory in Saxony-Anhalt.

A witness discovered the scrawled threat on a park bench and a rubbish bin in the English Garden in Munich last Thursday and informed police. Knobloch subsequently cancelled her attendance at an event.

The threat was explicitly linked to the AfD's election victory in Saxony-Anhalt. The community confirmed that Knobloch was threatened by name.

Andreas Franck, the anti-Semitism commissioner at the prosecutor's office, told dpa he has opened investigations into suspected incitement to hatred, threats and criminal damage.

At the conclusion of his visit to Munich, Wadephul visited the White Rose memorial, which commemorates the student resistance movement against the Nazi regime.