Attacks against cars & luxury developments in Germany

Unknown per­sons set on fire two lux­u­ry cars
Berlin, Decem­ber 19th 2008

In the night to Fri­day two upper­class cars were put on fire in Berlin. About 1.20 a.m. two peo­ple walk­ing by Elde­naer Strasse saw fire com­ing out of the engine com­part­ment of a mer­cedes. It was severe­ly dam­aged by the flames.

About 20 min­utes lat­er an inhab­i­tant of Horn­strasse reaslized a Chrysler burn­ing. A Golf stand­ing next to was also dam­aged by the heat. In both cas­es the Berlin Fire Brigades extin­guished the flames.

The polit­i­cal police Staatss­chutz took over inves­ti­ga­tions, as a polit­i­cal motive for the arsons can not be exclud­ed. This year already more than 60 cars had been burned in the cap­i­tal, pre­sum­ably for polit­i­cal rea­sons.

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Lux­u­ry Con­do-project attacked

Berlin, Decem­ber 19th 2008

In the night to Fri­day a lux­u­ry con­do­mini­um project was attacks with stones and colour bags in Kreuzberg. Some win­dows were smashed, the attack­ers got away unrec­og­nized.

About 20 per­son dressed in dark clothes attacked a lux­u­ry con­do build­ing under con­struc­tion in Kreuzberg withn stones and colour bags in the night to Fri­day. Accord­ing to the police 12 win­dows were bro­ken in the build­ing in Lieg­nitzer Strasse. Then the unknown per­sons ran away to Gör­l­itzer Park. The polit­i­cal police took over inves­ti­ga­tions.

In the Paul-Linke-Yards socalled Carlofts are being build, said the own­er. This means that the flats have their park­ing lot right in front of their door. The cars will be brought to the respec­tive floor by a lift. The con­dos in the scene dis­trict will cost up to 1.6 mil­lion Euro. A demon­stra­tion against increas­ing rents was banned from walk­ing past the object by the police.

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A car and a Dig­ger set on fire
Berlin 16 Dezem­ber 2008

Unknown per­sons have under­tak­en two arson attacks in the ear­ly morn­ing of Tues­day in the dis­trict of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. A taxi dri­ver noticed a car, a lux­u­ri­ous mer­cedes, burn­ing in the Wiener­strasse and called the cops.

Mean­while a Dig­ger got torched in the Kreutziger­strasse in Friedrichshain.

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“Land Rover” set on fire
Berlin 14 Decem­ber 2008

Unknown indi­vid­u­als put a „Land Rover“ on fire today ear­ly in the morn­ing in the dis­trict of Mitte. A taxi dri­ver noticed the car burn­ing on the cor­ner Choriner strassae/Fehrberliner strasse and called the cops. The State secu­ri­ty inves­ti­gates.

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„Hum­mer“ burned down

Berlin 8 of Decem­ber

A car got burned ear­ly in the morn­ing in Friedrichshain. Around 0.45 a police patrol noticed the burning“Hummer“ in the Frank­furter Allee.

Since a polit­i­cal moti­va­tion can not be exclud­ed, state secu­ri­ty inves­ti­gates.

More burn­ing of lux­u­ry cars through­out this autumn in Ger­many, at http://directactionde.blogspot.com/search/label/English, plus anti-mil­i­tarist, anti-fas­cist and Greek sol­i­dar­i­ty actions