Festival towards the fitting: New Year’s Eve rockets and “Sieg heil!” – Attack on the Lohmeyer couple in Jamel | EUROtoday

The organizers of the music pageant “Jamel rocks the forester” towards right-wing extremism have been threatened by as but unknown perpetrators on New Year’s Eve. When requested, the police confirmed a corresponding message from the couple Horst and Birgit Lohmeyer from the village close to Wismar.

Two unknown individuals entered the Lohmeyers’ property and thus dedicated trespassing, stated a spokeswoman for the Rostock police headquarters. The males additionally fired a rocket within the path of the Lohmeyers and shouted “Sieg heil!” By the time the police arrived, that they had already left the property. The investigation is ongoing.

“We are shocked by the audacity of this trespassing, which nothing excuses,” stated Horst Lohmeyer. The incident is harking back to the arson assault in 2015, when the Lohmeyers’ massive barn was set on fireplace.

The couple wrote of their assertion that there have been a number of masked males and younger individuals on the property. “They deliberately attacked the house and Birgit and Horst Lohmeyer themselves with fireworks and rockets.”

The music and tradition pageant “Jamel rocks the Förster” was launched in 2007 by the Lohmeyers from Hamburg. The annual occasion is directed towards right-wing extremism. In current years, the Toten Hosen and musicians from Ärzte, Herbert Grönemeyer and Marteria, have carried out. This yr, amongst others, the Fantastischen Vier and Olli Schulz have been there. The village within the municipality of Gägelow, with fewer than 40 residents, has been a stronghold of the neo-Nazi scene for the reason that early Nineteen Nineties.