In the current year, there has been a significant increase in property damage with a gay, lesbian or trans-enemy background. As can be seen from a response from the Federal Government to a request from the Greens parliamentary group, 42 property damages were counted since January, "which were assigned to the field of sexual orientation".
According to the Greens, this should amount to a doubling of the numbers over the whole year: In the whole of the previous year, 25 damage was recorded in the letter, less in the previous years.
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"The significant increase in homophobic and trans-enemy attacks on memorial sites and places is alarming," said the Green Party politician Sven Lehmann. "We have to assume that the number of unreported cases is even greater." He demands from the federal government a more accurate nationwide recording of such acts as well as a "nationwide action plan for the acceptance of sexual and gender diversity".
According to the Federal Government, attacks on plaques or monuments have been counted individually since this year. Of the 42 cases of damage to sexual orientation so far, there have been nine attacks on monuments or memorial sites.
For example, the monument to homosexuals persecuted in National Socialism in Berlin was smeared several times this year. The Greens also point to damage to the memorial sites for homosexual victims of the Nazis in Nuremberg and Cologne and to the attack on a Cologne LGBTI counseling center, where a window was thrown.