Nordhausen: Unknown people write “Jörg P. Kill” and “9mm go fck AfD” on the tram | EUROtoday

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By Jan Alexander Casper

Voluntär Innenpolitik / Axel Springer Academy of Journalism and Technology

IOn the night time of Monday, unknown people wrote “Jörg P. Kill” and “9mm go fck AfD” on a Nordhausen tram. Photos of this had been distributed on the quick message service X by the account “AfD News”. The police assess the incident as a politically motivated crime attributable to the “denigrating content relating to the mayoral election of the city of Nordhausen.”

On Sunday, the Nordhäuser elected their new mayor in a runoff election. According to the police, “Jörg P.” refers to the defeated AfD candidate Jörg Prophet. He misplaced the election with virtually 45 p.c, the winner was the earlier incumbent Kai Buchmann (unbiased). The “9mm” may check with the corresponding cartridge caliber.

The runoff election attracted nationwide and worldwide consideration as a result of Prophet had appeared in the previous as an writer of historic revisionist writings. The Mittelbau-Dora focus camp memorial is positioned in Nordhausen.

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Nothing is but identified about the background to the crime or the suspects. A spokeswoman for Stadtwerke Nordhausen instructed WELT that the crime befell between 1 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. on Monday night time. An evening watchman final inspected the tram at one o’clock; The graffiti was seen at the begin of the morning shift at 3:30 a.m.

The police mentioned that the perpetrators had illegally entered the premises of the Nordhausen municipal utility firm. The tram’s railcar is roofed with spray paint over an space measuring three meters by 22 meters. Apart from the lettering, a shade scheme of blue, silver and pink might be seen; presumably a cartridge could possibly be proven. Numerous traces had been discovered on web site.

The specialist commissioner for state safety offenses at the Nordhausen Criminal Police Inspectorate has began the investigation. The materials injury triggered is estimated at a number of thousand euros.

Interior Ministry condemns the act

Thuringia’s Interior Minister Georg Maier (SPD) instructed WELT: “A call for violence – no matter against whom – is completely unacceptable. I condemn something like that in the strongest possible terms. The state security police are now doing their job.”

AfD state executive board member Torben Braga “strongly condemned” the “death threat against Jörg Prophet” to WELT. It is the “unfortunate consequence of a smear campaign that was carried out against Prophet and the AfD in Nordhausen in the weeks before yesterday’s runoff election.”

Braga also made allegations against the municipal utilities: It seemed “hard to imagine that the tram depot in Nordhausen or the trams had no security measures in place that could prevent this act or at least enable the perpetrators of this threat to be identified”.

An alliance of Nordhausen citizens and institutions, which had mobilized in recent days to elect Prophet’s competitor Kai Buchmann, also condemned the act. A spokesman for #NordhausenTogether told the “Thüringer Allgemeine”: “Nothing is further from our hearts than graffiti on city property.”