translated from the German:
The car of Berliner Zeitung journalist Gunnar Schupelius, which was burnt to the ground in Wilmersdorf Tuesday night, was allegedly set on fire by left-wing activists. They claimed responsibility on the German version of the Indymedia website subsequent to the attack.
In the letter, a 'Princess Latte' stated that the attack on Schupelius was prompted because his writing "gives cues to racist, right, and reactionary thought". It ends with a reference to "feminist autonomous cells". This grouping had previously claimed responsibility for an attack on a vehicle in front of a Freikirche (in German context, generally an evangelical, actually Christian church) in Tübingen.
According to police, the fire was spotted by guests at a Berlin pub at about 2 o'clock the night before New Year's Eve. This is the second arson attack on Schupelius's vehicles- a car he owned having previously been set on fire in 2014.
District mayor of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Reinhard Naumann (SPD), said on Thursday that the secret police (Staatsschutz) will investigate the claim of responsibility for the attack. "If the attack is confirmed to have been performed by a left-wing extremist, as stated in the manifesto, as in the case of right-wing or radical religiously motivated extremism, the state's monopoly on violence must remain sancrosanct." Naumann stated Schupelius and his family had the full solidarity of the district office (a sub-city division of government in large German cities like Berlin).
Chairman of the German Journalist's Association, Frank Überall, also condemned the attack, writing that it was "a disgusting attack on the freedom of the press" on Twitter.
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This is a pretty funny occurrence. Schupelius is an extremely milquetoast libertarian type who has condemned the center-right AfD party for its move to appeal to German patriotism, so either Princess Latte of the Feminist Autonomous Cells is targeting totally irrelevant morons, or this guy burnt his car himself for attention.
The car of Berliner Zeitung journalist Gunnar Schupelius, which was burnt to the ground in Wilmersdorf Tuesday night, was allegedly set on fire by left-wing activists. They claimed responsibility on the German version of the Indymedia website subsequent to the attack.
In the letter, a 'Princess Latte' stated that the attack on Schupelius was prompted because his writing "gives cues to racist, right, and reactionary thought". It ends with a reference to "feminist autonomous cells". This grouping had previously claimed responsibility for an attack on a vehicle in front of a Freikirche (in German context, generally an evangelical, actually Christian church) in Tübingen.
According to police, the fire was spotted by guests at a Berlin pub at about 2 o'clock the night before New Year's Eve. This is the second arson attack on Schupelius's vehicles- a car he owned having previously been set on fire in 2014.
District mayor of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Reinhard Naumann (SPD), said on Thursday that the secret police (Staatsschutz) will investigate the claim of responsibility for the attack. "If the attack is confirmed to have been performed by a left-wing extremist, as stated in the manifesto, as in the case of right-wing or radical religiously motivated extremism, the state's monopoly on violence must remain sancrosanct." Naumann stated Schupelius and his family had the full solidarity of the district office (a sub-city division of government in large German cities like Berlin).
Chairman of the German Journalist's Association, Frank Überall, also condemned the attack, writing that it was "a disgusting attack on the freedom of the press" on Twitter.
Article (archive)
This is a pretty funny occurrence. Schupelius is an extremely milquetoast libertarian type who has condemned the center-right AfD party for its move to appeal to German patriotism, so either Princess Latte of the Feminist Autonomous Cells is targeting totally irrelevant morons, or this guy burnt his car himself for attention.
