Fire in citizen of Berlin mosque: Public prosecutor's office determines against suspects

The fire had destroyed a cultivation of the Mevlana mosque in Berlin and had damaged the front: Now the public prosecutor's office introduced investigations against a suspect of the presumed arson attack on the place of worship.

Berlin - in the case of the presumed arson attack on a mosque in Berlin Kreuzberg the public prosecutor's office introduced investigations against a suspect. As a spokesman of the accusation authority on request of Spiegel online explained, concern it with the accused one of a man originating from Jordan, who was already noticeable because of other arson reproaches and in custody sits at present. Against it now also the first suspicion resulted at the night to 12 August fire in the citizens of Berlin Mevlana mosque to have put.

According to public prosecutor's office the investigations persist against the suspect, also which concerns the possible motive of the act. Whether it had possibly a political background, was at present still completely open. According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior it gave twelve politically motivated encroachments on mosques in Germany alone from January to August of this year. Since 2001 was attacked after this counting altogether more than 300 Muslim places of worship. The spectrum of the acts reaches from swastika scratchworks over murder threats against imams up to the arson. The last encroachment, which the ministry of the Interior specifies in the statistics, therefore was on 17 August. A mosque in the Schleswig-Holstein Mölln was damaged.