Arson attack on a van of the federal police

Freiburg 17th february 2011

A cop car got torched in the early morning of tuesday in Freiburg. The investigators assume a attack.
Unknown persons were setting the van, which was parked in front of a station of the federal police , on fire, a spokesperson of the police reported. Its already the third arson attack that was committed in front of this station in the last 2 years. The car which has been parked on Wentziger Straße got demaged quit badly so the demage is estimated to be around several thousand euro. Nobody got injured. A police man discovered the fire coincidently when he left the station around 4:30am.

A similar attack against the police of freiburg happened in summer 2009. A communique of a left-autonomous group appeared in the internet. The offenders are still unknown. Now the police is again investigating in direction of the left scene.
source: Badische Zeitung