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Entrance to the vaccination center in Treuen
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An arson attack was carried out on a vaccination center in Treuen, Saxony.
As the Zwickau police department announced, strangers threw three beer bottles with a flammable liquid against a roller door of the facility on Tuesday evening.
The police suspect ethanol, but an exact analysis is still pending.
The incendiary devices did not ignite, so that no fire broke out.
People were not injured and, according to the police, there was no significant damage.
So far, no trace of the perpetrators
According to a spokesman for the authorities, the police used a helicopter and thermal imaging cameras to search for the perpetrators.
So far, however, there is no trace of them.
The police now want to question witnesses.
The alleged perpetrators had waited a time when the security service was on the other side of the building, it said.
They are said to have escaped in a car.
The police are looking for a red car that is said to have driven towards Auerbach at the time of the crime.
According to witness statements, three people were sitting in the vehicle.
Such an incident has not yet occurred at the vaccination center in Treuen, said the police spokesman.
The facility is one of 13 vaccination centers in Saxony and is operated in a former shopping center.
At the end of September, the vaccination center, like all other such facilities in the Free State, is due to close.
Saxony's Minister of Social Affairs, Petra Köpping, condemned the attack.
"I am very relieved that no employees have been harmed," said the SPD politician.
The attack was a new level of escalation: "It is a personal matter not to be vaccinated," she said.
"But attacking other people and buildings in order to disrupt the vaccination campaign as a whole is, in my opinion, a criminal act and should be punished."
Corona deniers and critics of protective measures had repeatedly mobilized against vaccination in the past.
According to the Thuringia Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, two medical assistants were recently injured in an attack in Gera.
According to this, a man had requested a vaccination certificate from them, but did not want to be vaccinated.
When the staff refused to give him the certificate, he hit her.
They came to the hospital.
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