Unknown people laid fire in the Göttingen Immigration Office on the night of Monday. "We assume a left-motivated arson attack," said a police spokeswoman.
For the circumstances of the fire and the amount of damage there were initially no concrete information. The investigators in Lower Saxony, however, held a published on the Internet Bekennerschreiben for authentic, said the spokeswoman.
Accordingly, the attack is related to a planned Tuesday for reading by the former Federal Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière. The anonymous writers accuse the CDU politician, he was jointly responsible for the German refugee policy and the deportation practice of the immigration authorities.
The reading was originally scheduled to take place on 21 October as part of the Göttingen Literary Autumn. De Maizière wanted to read from his book "Rule", but the event had been prevented by left-wing activists.