This was surely an intended act of kindness, not murder.
Spiegel (with Google Translate):
That said, let's be real. The only crime I see is that there is a man - or woman - who put in a hard night's worth of charred wood labour and does not have a single Euro in pay to show for it. Even if the Germans are not the best of tippers, I would expect an artist to be compensated.
With news like this no wonder why some people do not like the AfD.
Spiegel (with Google Translate):
from "Polizei ermittelt wegen mutmaßlichem Brandanschlag auf AfD-Politiker," SpiegelCalling somebody's late-hour, carefully-performed wood art performance a possible attempted murder? That sounds like a tin-foil-hat-wearing, far-right Neonnazi conspiracy theory. Everybody knows that the enemies of the AfD are lovers of peace who believe in true democracy.
A summer party involving the populist Alternative for Germany political party had just concluded in Arendsee, when an incident occurred. According to the police, an unknown person set fire to a garden house where an AfD politician and his girlfriend were sleeping.
According to the daily newspaper "Volksstimme" and the German news network MDR, the politician was Sebastian Koch, the 32-year-old AfD district chief of the Altmark district of Salzwedel. According to police, his 27-year-old girlfriend had woken up on Sunday morning because she had noticed unusual noises. She moved to the window fast enough to see an unknown person running away, around 3.30 a.m., and immediately noticed a fire under the window. She then woke her boyfriend up. Both were able to extinguish the fire themselves, the police spokesman said.
According to MDR, the police are investigating for attempted murder. A spokesman for the police inspectorate in Stendal said that a political motive had not been ruled out. Officials of the Saxony-Anhalt State Criminal Investigation Office found an incendiary. No further details were given with reference to ongoing investigations (more).
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| Above: the garden house where the politician and his girlfriend were sleeping when the fire began. |
That said, let's be real. The only crime I see is that there is a man - or woman - who put in a hard night's worth of charred wood labour and does not have a single Euro in pay to show for it. Even if the Germans are not the best of tippers, I would expect an artist to be compensated.
With news like this no wonder why some people do not like the AfD.
