Crime: State security takes over in spray attack in Rostock

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State protection takes over in spray attack in Rostock

The sunflower house in Rostock’s Lichtenhagen district. photo

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A 25-year-old was attacked with a corrosive liquid in his apartment in Rostock-Lichtenhagen. There is a suspicion of a politically motivated act.

After the attack with an unknown liquid on a resident in Rostock-Lichtenhagen, state security took over the investigation.

There is a suspicion of a politically motivated crime and dangerous bodily harm, said a police spokesman in Rostock on Monday. The background is that about four and a half hours before the attack, a picture of the victim was published on the Twitter account of the anti-fascist group Alerta Berlin. There it had been claimed that this man had given a Hitler salute during a demonstration in Lichtenhagen on Saturday. However, this cannot be seen exactly on the eight-second video sequence.

The 25-year-old man was splashed with a previously unknown liquid during the attack on Saturday evening, which caused severe burning and reddening of the skin. According to the police, hooded perpetrators had knocked on the victim’s apartment window on the ground floor. When the resident opened the window, he was sprayed with the liquid – which is said to have smelled of chili or tabasco sauce – on his face and bare upper body. The perpetrators fled, the man came to a clinic, which he was able to leave again on Sunday.

Several thousand people gathered in Rostock-Lichtenhagen on Saturday to commemorate the racist attacks in the district 30 years ago. The Alerta Berlin group is assigned to the left spectrum.

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