Nazi symbols and hostile slogans have appeared in various German cities, while Israeli flags have disappeared from city halls, public broadcaster Polish Radio’s polskieradio24.pl website has reported.
In the German capital, the remains of the Berlin Wall have been painted with swastikas and anti-Israeli slogans, polskieradio24.pl reported on Wednesday, citing local police.
Police have launched an investigation into “incitement, damage to property and the use of forbidden symbols” over swastikas and slogans painted on the fragment of the Berlin Wall that is displayed at the East Side Gallery in the German capital’s Friedrichshain district, according to polskieradio24.pl.
The incidents “violate inalienable rights, including the right to equal treatment, human dignity and freedom of religion,” police said in a statement, as quoted by polskieradio24.pl.
Law enforcement officials have removed similar graffiti in other parts of the German capital, polskieradio24.pl reported.
Meanwhile, it said police in Braunschweig have detained four teenagers of Arab descent on suspicion of having stolen a flag of Israel put up at City Hall.
Braunschweig authorities had hoisted the flag in solidarity with war-torn Israel, according to polskieradio24.pl.
A similar incident occurred in Heilbronn, where city officials had to install a new flag of Israel after the original one, put up in solidarity, was taken down, according to the report.
By Thursday morning, some 1,200 people had been killed in Israel as a result of Hamas’ deadly attacks that began at the weekend, the BBC reported.
Meanwhile, a similar number of people have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched retaliatory air strikes, with a further 338,000 displaced, the British broadcaster said.
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Source: polskieradio24.pl, BBC