In Upper Franconia, a young man tore down an Israeli flag and stomped on it.
It is assumed that the act was deliberately politically motivated, said a police spokesperson. The man had deliberately chosen the Israeli flag among the many flags waving at Bayreuth’s Luidpoldplatz and wanted to damage it.
According to the police, the stateless 20-year-old is from the “Palestinian territories occupied by Israel”.
According to the police report, the man first climbed the flagpole on Friday, tore down the flag and then trampled on it. A witness observed the act, chased him and alerted the police.
The officers charged the 20-year-old with violating flags and national emblems of foreign states. According to a police spokesperson on Monday, there are no indications of a mental state of emergency.
It was not known whether the man had already had criminal convictions.