The police in Schleswig-Holstein has identified a suspect in a mosque after vandalism and a Koranschändung. The Iraqi confessed after his arrest another act in Bremen. That said spokesman for the prosecution in Flensburg and Bremen.
According to the 34-year-old refugee admitted during an interrogation, in June in a Bremen mosque tore around 50 Koran and have thrown them partly in toilets.
Both incidents had caused great outrage nationwide and fueled concerns about Islamophobic attacks. Also possible connections to further acts in other federal states are to be examined now. The motives of the suspect are according to the investigators still unclear.
Possibility of "Islamophobic Motivation"
According to a spokesman for the Bremen prosecutor, the man calls himself a Yazidi. It is a Kurdish-speaking religious minority in Iraq, in which the jihadist militia Islamic State committed genocide during their reign. Men were killed and women enslaved.
According to a spokeswoman for the public prosecutor in Flensburg, which leads the investigation, leaves a "anti-immigrant background" according to the current state of investigation, an "anti-Islamic motivation" but possible.
In light of the new findings, investigators in other states have now been informed. If necessary, the processing of cases will then also be brought together centrally.
The man was arrested about a week ago after damage in a mosque in Schleswig, it was said by the police. There had been discovered in recent months, several Vandanlismusschäden.
50 damaged Koran in Bremen
In one case, a Koran was torn and the pages of the book were thrown into a toilet. There were broken faucets from sinks of a washroom and left unspecified "graffiti" according to police.
In the attack in Bremen about 50 Koran were damaged in a mosque near the station about three months ago, partly torn and stuffed in toilets. Above all, this act aroused great national attention. Why the suspect could have stayed in Bremen is unclear.
It could also be a coincidence, said the spokeswoman for the Flensburg prosecutor. The man lives in Schleswig-Holstein.