The attack happened at the end of a week in which the racist riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen 30 years ago were widely remembered. In August 1992, to the applause of thousands of onlookers, residents and neo-Nazis attacked the central reception center for asylum seekers and a dormitory for Vietnamese workers and partly set them on fire.
The Saxon LKA was initially unable to provide any information about the perpetrators in Leipzig. Investigators asked for witnesses. A political background cannot be ruled out. The “Task Force Violence” in the State Criminal Police Office took over the investigation. The suspicion was attempted particularly serious arson.
The interior minister of the federal state of Saxony, Armin Schuster (CDU), called it a warning sign “that such inhuman crimes are not a thing of the past”. It is also thanks to the prudent security forces at the accommodation that no one was harmed and only minor property damage was caused, the CDU politician explained in a tweet.
The shared accommodation is located in a prefabricated building in the Lausen-Grünau district. According to the city of Leipzig, it has 225 places.
Source: Nachrichten
