Right-wing graffiti and smoke bombs: since the announcement that they no longer want to take in refugees, Peutenhausen has been plagued by radical circles.
The Upper Bavarian village of Peutenhausen never comes to rest. Since the town in the district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen hit the national headlines because it no longer wants to take in refugees, there have been repeated xenophobic incidents. At the end of January, several graffiti with the logo of a small right-wing extremist party were discovered on a street, along with slogans such as “stop the flood of foreigners”. On Thursday, the police reported another incident.
In the morning, six people, some of whom were masked, gathered on the street in front of the asylum accommodation and lit smokers, from which red signal smoke rose. To do this, they unrolled a banner about 10 to 15 meters tall and blocked traffic. They recorded the action on video. When the police arrived, the group had already disappeared.
A little later, the police discovered a white van at a rest area near Dasing and provisionally arrested three people suspected of being involved in the action. According to a spokeswoman for the police headquarters in Upper Bavaria North, the three other people are still on the run. A spokeswoman was initially unable to provide any information on the background of the suspects and the content of the banner when asked by SZ, the investigation is still ongoing and is being managed by the Ingolstadt criminal police.
“There was no danger for the asylum seekers,” said the spokeswoman. It is about the suspicion of coercion in road traffic and other administrative offences. Whether there is a connection with the right-wing graffiti of the small party observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution is being examined. Villagers were not involved in the action.
The town of 650 has become the focus of right-wing circles since Mayor Alfred Lengler (CSU) publicly announced in January that he no longer wanted to take in refugees. Around 50 refugees are currently living there, divided between two communal accommodations and private apartments. This reaction was triggered by attacks by refugees. In December, two Afghans are said to have sexually molested two women, and there were also several burglaries committed by a youth from Ukraine. The suspects are no longer in the village. According to Christian Linden, head of the Schrobenhausen police station, Peutenhausen will now be under special surveillance to protect villagers and asylum seekers. Everyone in the village suffers from the attention of xenophobic groups, he says.