Overview
- Police confirmed that two Islamic institutions in Hannover’s Mitte and Nordstadt were defaced on Tuesday with inscriptions referencing Israel and the IDF.
- The polizeilicher Staatsschutz is leading the investigation, with no suspects or motive disclosed as inquiries continue.
- Officers are examining a possible link to additional paint markings at a third nearby building and to a reported broken window at another mosque.
- Lower Saxony’s antisemitism commissioner Gerhard Wegner condemned the acts as an effort to incite hostility, urging broad solidarity with the affected communities.
- Community leaders reported the targeted sites include a Milli Görüs mosque in Nordstadt and a Ditib-associated institution in Mitte, and they called for heightened protection around houses of worship.