A home for asylum seekers in Leipzig has become the target of an arson attack. Police say the damage is minor. The timing of the attack brings back memories.
During the commemoration week of the racist riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen 30 years ago, an arson attack was carried out on accommodation for refugees in Leipzig. Unknown perpetrators threw several incendiary devices against a house wall on Saturday night, according to a spokesman for the State Criminal Police Office (LKA). Security forces were able to extinguish “a local fire” very quickly, resulting in only minor property damage. Nobody got hurt. Saxony’s Ministry of the Interior announced increased surveillance of all asylum seeker accommodations. An action alliance is planning a demonstration.
In the past week, the events in Rostock-Lichtenhagen have been remembered many times. In August 1992, to the applause of thousands of onlookers, local residents and neo-Nazis attacked the central reception center for asylum seekers and a dormitory for Vietnamese workers and partly set them on fire. Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier described the event at a commemoration event on Thursday as “days of shame in our country”.
Investigators are asking for witnesses
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.
Saxony’s interior minister, Armin Schuster, 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 on Twitter.
The shared accommodation is located in a prefabricated building in the Lausen-Grünau district. According to the city of Leipzig, it has 225 places.
Leipzig’s Mayor Burkhard Jung said on Sunday that Democrats could only react to the attack “with disgust”. “In this week of all days, when we are remembering the attacks in Rostock 30 years ago, throwing an incendiary device on an accommodation for asylum seekers shows that we are not dealing with spontaneous offenders here. The perpetrators deliberately wanted to set an inhuman sign ” said the SPD politician.
The action network “Leipzig takes place” called for a demonstration on Monday evening in Grünau. Alliance spokeswoman Irena Rudolph-Kokot said on Sunday that the aim was to draw attention to the fact that everyday racism was brewing in society and that too much hatred and hate speech was allowed. The action network pointed out that the accommodation concerned had also been the target of attacks in 1991.
Source: Stern
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