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"New escalation level": Unknown people throw incendiary devices at the vaccination center

2021-09-15T12:11:15.551Z


Corona deniers and vaccination opponents have been mobilizing against vaccination centers and vaccination teams for a long time. In Saxony, hostility has now reached a new dimension.


Corona deniers and vaccination opponents have been mobilizing against vaccination centers and vaccination teams for a long time.

In Saxony, hostility has now reached a new dimension.

Treuen - An arson attack on a vaccination center has been carried out in Treuen, Saxony.

A spokesman for the Zwickau police said on Wednesday that unknown persons had thrown three beer bottles filled with flammable liquid against the gate on Tuesday evening.

The incendiary devices did not ignite, so that no significant damage was caused.

Nobody was injured either.

The police suspect ethanol in the bottles, but an exact analysis is still pending.

The property in which Corona * vaccinations are administered was secured by a security service.

The alleged perpetrators had waited a time when the patrol was on the other side of the building, it said.

Corona in Germany: the perpetrators apparently escaped with a red vehicle

The vaccination operation continues.

The investigations had shown that the three unknown perpetrators had made a hole in the fence and thus got onto the site.

After the attack, they apparently escaped in a red vehicle, as the spokesman said.

The police were informed around 10 p.m. and searched for the suspects that night with a helicopter and thermal imaging cameras.

The officials asked for evidence.

According to witness statements, three people were sitting in the vehicle.

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A Red Cross flag hangs over the entrance to the vaccination center in Eich / Treuen.

Three strangers are said to have thrown beer bottles with a flammable liquid on the building.

© B & S / David Rötzschke / dpa

Saxony's Minister of Health condemned the attack as "hideous"

Such an incident has not yet occurred at the vaccination center in Treuen, said the spokesman.

The Treuen vaccination center is one of 13 vaccination centers in Saxony and is operated in the Spectrum Center Eich, 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 Health Petra Köpping (SPD *) condemned the attack as "hideous".

It is a "new level of escalation after we have already repeatedly determined verbal attacks on mobile vaccination teams," she said.

Attacking people and buildings to disrupt the vaccination campaign is a criminal act and should be severely punished.

Attacks on vaccination teams: Corona deniers and critics of protective measures make people mobile

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 had to go to the hospital.

(AFP / dpa / cibo) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.

List of rubric lists: © B & S / David Rötzschke / dpa

Source: merkur

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