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German authorities plan to deploy police officers to guard the Karolina-Burger high school in Ludwigshafen following a series of violent incidents that have included knife attacks, beatings, threats of mass shootings, and repeated emergency call-outs, prompting officials to describe the campus as one of Germany’s most troubled schools.
As reported by Bild, the decision comes after 118 criminal complaints and around 100 fire department call-outs linked to the school. Two state ministers announced that a regular police presence would begin at the Ludwigshafen campus and could later be expanded to other schools in high-crime areas.
The move follows a letter written by teachers at the school, which detailed what staff described as an escalating breakdown in safety. The document catalogued death threats from students, such as “I’ll shoot you all,” physical assaults, including a “student hitting another student with an emergency hammer,” routine insults directed at teachers, and extensive vandalism, ranging from damaged walls to feces and urine found across the school premises.
The most serious incident occurred in May, when a 16-year-old student attacked a teacher in the staff room with a knife. Prosecutors later said the girl acted “with the intention of killing her.”
Eight months after that attack, the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Education and Ministry of the Interior presented what they called a prevention package focused on police visibility, additional educational staff, and psychological support. Interior Minister Michael Ebling said, “Violence has no place in our society – and certainly not in our schools.” Education Minister Sven Teuber added, “Every child has the right to learn well and safely.”
Under the plan, police visits to the school are intended to be “unprovoked, regular, time-limited, with fixed times and clearly designated contact persons.” Authorities also plan meetings with potential perpetrators of violence, some of which would take place at police stations to deter escalation. A confidential support center is to be set up for teachers who experience threats or violence. Officials said details such as officer equipment were still being finalized.
The school’s staff council, which represents a campus of around 800 students, had previously called for smaller classes, more teachers and social workers, and additional security measures, including cameras in hallways and schoolyards and metal detectors at entrances to prevent weapons from being brought into the building.
The school has previously drawn the attention of the police. In 2018, a special police unit was deployed after a student was reportedly seen with a weapon, although no weapon was found at the time.
Teachers have since complained that little changed, even after the knife attack in May, until the latest intervention by state authorities.
Insecurity across German schools has risen in tandem with the country’s policy of mass immigration.
In July 2025, new data showed that 40 percent of all suspects identified in school violence in 2024 were not German citizens, with Syrians at the top of the charts.
In total, there were 4,254 foreign suspects and 7,309 suspects with German citizenship, the German government announced at the time in response to a parliamentary inquiry from Alternative for Germany (AfD) MP Martin Hess.
Of the 11,558 suspects in total, 1,236 had Syrian passports, representing one in ten violent incidents, according to the data.
Earlier this month, the Cottbus public prosecutor’s office launched an investigation into 18 specific cases of serious violence in the migrant-dominated Regine Hildebrandt Primary School in the south of Cottbus, leading the AfD to speak out against migrant violence in schools.
Testimony from a fifth-grade victim at a school in Berlin last October revealed how she had been assaulted multiple times by foreign boys, causing her to suffer from psychological disorders, including PTSD. In four different incidents last year, the victim suffered from death threats, bruises on her body, abrasions, and even a headbutting attack.
Disintegration and attempts to curtail the violence and disorder are affecting educational standards. Last month, over 1,000 teachers in the German state of Hesse penned a letter to the state’s Ministry of Culture, warning that many elementary school children are not even able to undertake simple tasks like tying their shoes or using toilet paper when visiting the restroom.
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