Saxony
Shoemaker after arson attack: perpetrators will have to “pay”
Traces of fire and smashed windows can be seen on the facade of the planned asylum accommodation. photo
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After a fire in a planned refugee home in Bautzen, it quickly became clear that it was an arson attack. Saxony’s interior minister described the act as worrying.
After the arson attack on a planned refugee accommodation in Bautzen, Saxony, Minister of the Interior Armin Schuster was dismayed by the act. During a visit to the scene of the fire, the CDU politician said on Saturday: “Now I see the situation as even more worrying than from afar.” The perpetrators’ goal was to “completely reduce the former hotel to rubble,” Schuster suspected.
The interior minister assured that everything would be done to find those responsible. These belonged “not to the middle of our society”. “On the contrary: they have to pay for it.” The act is an attempt to put the Saxons in a different light. “We will defend ourselves against this,” said Schuster.
On Friday morning, strangers smashed the windows of the house that refugees were supposed to move into next week. Then the fire broke out. Four people who stayed in the building were not injured. According to the city, they were employees of the building’s owner.
There had already been an attempted arson attack on the “Spreehotel” in 2016 – refugees were also staying there at the time. At the time, three young men threw Molotov cocktails over a fence in the direction of the house.