Unknown people throw bottles in the window of the Russian Orthodox Church in Berlin-Charlottenburg
Unknown perpetrators threw bottles against the window of a Russian Orthodox church in Berlin-Charlottenburg. The Berlin police said on Wednesday that three window panes in the church on Wintersteinstrasse had been damaged. people have not been hurt.
Church officials told the police that refugees from Ukraine are currently being accommodated in the building, which also contains a community hall and other rooms. Because of the war between Russia and Ukraine, the police consider a politically motivated act to be likely, so the state security agency responsible is investigating at the State Criminal Police Office (LKA).
Last week, a small fire was set at the entrance to the gym at a private school with a Russian-language focus in Berlin-Marzahn. Here, too, the police suspect that the motive of the perpetrators was related to the war.
In the first two weeks since Russia’s attack on February 24, the police had registered around 100 crimes such as insults and graffiti related to the war. Most of the acts were anti-Russian, but a smaller number were also anti-Ukraine
directed.
Broadcast: rbb88.8, 03/16/2022, 12:00 p.m