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Robert Koch Institute in Berlin: "The employee was able to put out the flames"
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According to the police, unknown persons attacked a building of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in Berlin.
The investigators said in the morning that incendiary devices were thrown against the facade on Sunday night.
Nobody was injured.
At around 2:40 a.m., security officers discovered several people who had thrown bottles.
"A window pane is said to have broken. The employee was able to extinguish the flames," said the police report.
The suspects had escaped undetected.
"Since a political motivation is being examined in the attempted arson, the police state security of the State Criminal Police Office has taken over the further investigations," said the police.
The Robert Koch Institute is a federal institute within the portfolio of the Federal Ministry of Health.
The core tasks: the detection, prevention and control of diseases, especially infectious diseases.
In the field of disease monitoring and prevention it is the central institution of the federal government "and thus also the central institution of the federal government in the field of application and measure-oriented biomedical research", so it is on the website of the RKI.
"One of the tasks is the general legal mandate to develop scientific knowledge as a basis for health policy decisions."
The RKI is therefore the central authority in the corona crisis.
However, the numbers it publishes on the course of the infection are often far too low.
The most important number of the pandemic - the new infections of the past seven days - is incorrectly stated by the RKI in many cases, as a SPIEGEL data analysis has shown.
At least 30 percent of all 7-day incidences published by the institute between August 31 and October 12 were incomplete and therefore incorrect.
They were completely missing data for at least one day.
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