Berlin: Shots fired at SPD politician’s workplace – “Genocide” slogan sprayed on home wall | EUROtoday

An apparently politically motivated assault was carried out on the workplace of Berlin MP Lars Düsterhöft (SPD). “We condemn Germany 4 Genozide” was sprayed in pink letters on the wall of the constructing within the Oberschöneweide district, and a window with Düsterhöft's portrait was shot at a number of instances. This is proven in images that the politician posted on Facebook. posted.

The State Security Department of the Berlin State Criminal Police Office has launched an investigation into property injury with a political background, a police spokeswoman stated when requested. The police had been known as to the constituency workplace on Siemensstrasse on Tuesday morning.

Düsterhöft was shocked. “Shots fired at my face and slogans written on the wall of a house are criminal acts that deeply affect and shock me,” he wrote. For him, the act was clearly linked to the conflict within the Gaza Strip. Many Berliners have roots within the area, and he can solely think about the “fears, desperation and anger of the people on both sides,” he continued. The scenario affected him too. At the identical time, he requested: “What is the next step, that someone stands in front of me with a gun and pulls the trigger? I reject this escalation.” He invited individuals to a “dialogue on equal terms.”

The SPD parliamentary group within the Berlin House of Representatives condemned the assault. “Anyone who fires shots at the office of a democratically elected representative and thus marks the representative as a potential murder victim is acting in a deeply inhumane and criminal manner and is consciously opposing the basic principles of our free and democratic constitutional order,” the parliamentary group stated.

“Dear Lars, we stand firmly by your side!” wrote Social Senator Cansel Kiziltepe (SPD) on the web platform X. Düsterhöft is the SPD's parliamentary group spokesman for social affairs, care and other people with disabilities. The Senate was additionally appalled: “This is a despicable act that cannot be justified in any way,” stated spokeswoman Christine Richter. “Attacks on parliamentarians are attacks on democratic society as a whole.”