More than a year after the attack on the Jewish restaurant "Schalom" in Chemnitz, the police have searched the home of a suspect in Lower Saxony. The man from the Stade area is suspected of having attacked the "Shalom" with other, yet unknown perpetrators and injured the owner with a stone, as the State Criminal Police Office of Saxony (LKA) and the Prosecutor General announced.
According to investigators, the man was identified by a DNA track on crime scene items. The 28-year-old officials did not arrive at the search. They secured mobile phones, a tablet and balaclavas. The authorities investigate allegations of breach of the peace and the dangerous bodily injury.
The attack in Chemnitz occurred on 27 August 2018, one day after the violent death of 35-year-old Daniel Hillig. This caused protests and riots of some extreme right-wing groups in Chemnitz because the suspects were asylum seekers. A group of hooded people attacked the "Shalom" with bottles and stones and called anti-Semitic slogans. The case had caused nationwide horror.
