Overview

• Unidentified perpetrators defaced 96 gravestones with feces at Neuer Friedhof in Potsdam's Teltower Vorstadt district.
• The vandalism was discovered by cemetery staff and reported to the police on Wednesday.
• Authorities are investigating the incident as both property damage and a disturbance of the peace of the dead.
• Police have found no evidence of a targeted pattern or political motive behind the act.
• This is the latest in a series of cemetery vandalism incidents in Potsdam, including similar cases in 2023 and 2024.