Overview
- Two Rothkegel company trucks parked beside a petrol station in Leipzig were destroyed by fire during the night to Friday.
- An anonymous post on Indymedia claimed responsibility and described placing incendiary devices at the vehicles.
- The claim said the attack targeted owner and former CDU councilor Claus-Uwe Rothkegel over providing a warehouse for an event.
- The PTAZ within Saxony's LKA has assumed the case and stated a political motive cannot be ruled out.
- Leipzig CDU leaders denounced the act as left-wing radical terrorism, likened the claim’s language to the RAF, and praised firefighters for preventing greater danger.