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Left-Wing Extremists’ Hamburg Car Arsons Highlight Mistaken Targets

The state security department says one car burned in the nighttime arsons belonged to an uninvolved owner.

Milliardär Klaus-Michael Kühne (l.) und Karl Gernandt, ehemaliger Geschäftsführer der Kühne-Holding (Archivfoto)
Milliardär Klaus-Michael Kühne (l.) und sein Vertrauter Karl Gernandt. Linksextremisten haben einen Brandanschlag verübt – und wohl die Falschen getroffen (Archivfoto).
Linksextreme Aktivisten auf dem Dach des linksautonomen Kulturzentrums Rote Flora im Hamburger Schanzenviertel
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Overview

  • Two separate nighttime firebombings on June 13 and 14 targeted the private vehicles of Vincorion CEO Kajetan von Mentzingen and logistics executive Karl Gernandt.
  • A left-wing extremist group claimed responsibility on Indymedia, attacking the arms industry and a planned Baakenhafen opera house as emblems of capitalist and neocolonial power.
  • The perpetrators demanded that luxury properties owned by Klaus-Michael Kühne and Karl Gernandt be handed over to refugees as part of their antikapitalist and antimilitaristic protest.
  • Hamburg police, with support from the state security department, are probing the incidents and uncovered evidence suggesting at least one of the burned cars belonged to an uninvolved owner.
  • Hamburg’s CDU condemned the arson as a direct assault on social cohesion and free speech.