Overview
- Firefighters extinguished a blaze in a shed on Andreas Büttner’s Templin property around 3:40 a.m. Sunday, with his family inside the nearby home and no injuries reported.
- Investigators documented an anti-constitutional mark described by dpa as an inverted red triangle associated in reporting with Hamas, painted on a neighboring door.
- Büttner called the incident an act of hatred and intimidation directed at him and his family and said he will not be deterred.
- Brandenburg leaders, including Minister-President Dietmar Woidke and Interior Minister René Wilke, condemned the attack as unacceptable, as police and state security opened a probe with no suspects announced.
- This is the second recent attack on Büttner after swastikas were scratched into his car in 2024, a case highlighted by federal antisemitism commissioner Felix Klein as part of a broader rise in antisemitic offenses in Germany.