Overview

• Masked attackers used paint bottles and smoke bombs, sprayed graffiti with political content, smashed windows and entered the building.
• Police surrounded the site after a security alert and arrested five people in an upper floor without resistance, and no injuries were reported.
• The LKA’s Anti-Terror Center and state security have taken over the investigation, and the detainees remain in custody while a detention review proceeds.
• Preliminary property damage is estimated in the low six figures, according to LKA spokesperson Lisa Schröder.
• Authorities are examining connections to prior actions targeting Elbit, including a protest at the Ulm site in August and earlier paint attacks in Berlin, and the company did not respond to inquiries.