Overview
- Police detained a 26-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman at the scene and seized two paint buckets.
- Officers inferred a pro-Palestinian motive from a Palestine flag and a banner reading "Peacefully against Genocide."
- A group using that name claimed responsibility in a statement accompanying a circulating video on social media and Indymedia.
- The pair were later released, a criminal complaint was filed, and the Chancellery facade was cleaned.
- Investigators are checking for links to a separate red-paint action hours earlier outside a Landsberger Allee hotel hosting the Berlin Security Conference, though no connection is currently assumed.