In an interview with Funke Mediengruppe, Dobrindt noted that while the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution is well-equipped to combat right-wing extremism and Islamist terrorism, left-wing extremism has not received adequate political attention in recent years. He highlighted a recent arson attack on Berlin’s power grid as indicative of a growing willingness within the left-wing extremist scene to inflict harm on the public. Dobrindt previously announced a package of measures aimed at bolstering intelligence services and expanding digital surveillance capabilities to better monitor this form of extremism.