Germany’s National Security Agency is investigating the possibility of politically motivated arson after Gaza-related slogans were left at Berlin’s City Hall, where an attempted arson attack took place.
Berlin’s fire brigade sent 30 firefighters to the Tiergarten town hall in the city center, where local residents reported hearing glass breaking, fire burning on the ground floor and people running from the scene. . A town spokesperson said the fire “could have led to a much larger fire” but was extinguished in time thanks to the quick reaction of people living nearby, and the brigade said it “could have been quickly extinguished.” I was able to do that.”
During the restoration work, the furniture inside the City Hall was covered with scaffolding. damaged report die welt.
Graffiti was later discovered at the scene, which included content from the German Jewish Forum for Democracy and Anti-Semitism. called “Anti-Israel slogans and threats.” Messages included “If Gaza burns, Berlin burns” and “Warn Berlin, we will let it burn.”
In der Nacht wurde das Bürgeramt im Rathaus Tiergarten, #Berlin , Ziehl Ines Brandinschlags. Unbekannte haben israelfeindliche Parolen und Drohungen wie ‘Warnung Berlin wir lassen es brennen’ und ‘Brennt Gaza brennt Berlin’ großflächig an die Fassade gesprüht. #B0905… pic.twitter.com/rE3Z8JPb5B
— Jewish Forum (JFDA eV) (@JFDA_eV) May 9, 2024
german newspaper Targets Spiegel report A police spokeswoman said initial findings suggested a petrol bomb caused the fire, and that the investigation was treating the fire as linked to the writing on the wall. A spokesperson said the connection between the two acts was “clear”. For this reason, the National Security Agency has taken over the investigation and is considering political arson.
The paper also quoted Samuel Salzborn, Berlin’s anti-Semitism commissioner, who said that if the arson charges were proven, “police would have to focus on the escalation of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel in the last year.” It must be done,” he said. Weeks, months.”
Salzborn said that while hatred is directed against Jews in Germany, violence is also directed against “core elements of democracy.” He said the attack on City Hall was a continuation of the violence seen at the protests.
After years of decline, anti-Semitism is making a comeback in Germany, especially since last year’s deadly Hamas terrorist attack on Israel. Since the attack, Germany has seen hundreds of anti-Semitic “politically motivated crimes”, with the majority attributed to “foreign ideology” or “religion,” according to a December report. It turned out that it was.
Just this year, synagogues were incendiary bombed in German cities and Auschwitz monuments were destroyed in German-built death camps in Poland.
‘It must never be broken again’ – Chancellor Olaf Scholz condemns rising anti-Semitism in Germanyhttps://t.co/lPCXckA6cv
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) October 22, 2023
