The carcass of a single-family house burnt down in Dresden. The State Criminal Police Office is investigating for serious arson and suspects a political background. The owner had been threatened before.
Unknown persons have thrown an incendiary device at a detached house still under construction in Dresden. A political motive could not be ruled out, according to the State Criminal Police Office. A spokesperson for the authority told public broadcaster MDR SACHSEN that the owner of the house had already been the victim of Islamist threats in the past. He is a political scientist who has made critical statements about Islam. The investigators are now asking for information from the public.
The so-called Molotov cocktail was thrown onto the balcony on the first floor of the shell of the building in the street Brückenstraße at around 3:30 a.m. last Saturday. As a result, a fire broke out. The resulting damage to property cannot yet be quantified. The Police Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Extremism Centre has taken over the investigation.
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