Overview

• On June 28, a seven- to eight-person group armed with a baseball bat tore down the rainbow flag at Tipsy Bear Bar in Prenzlauer Berg.
• Police detained a 19-year-old suspect at the scene after he directed homophobic insults at the bar owner.
• Officers identified a 17-year-old suspect who threw the rainbow flag into a nearby trash bin.
• The Berlin polizeiliche Staatsschutz has assumed the case to investigate the assault as a political hate crime.
• Both suspects were released after identification and the 19-year-old received a ban from the bar’s vicinity.