Erfurt (dpa/th) - Two tires were punctured on a car belonging to the Verdi union on Monday in the parking lot of the German Confederation of Unions in Erfurt. A police spokesman said a complaint had been made about the incident. As the DGB announced, it was the second attack on union vehicles within a week. Already on August 3, three vehicles were so badly damaged that they were no longer roadworthy. After a swastika was scratched into the paint on one of the cars, it can be assumed that right-wing extremists were behind the attacks.
According to the DGB, the reason for the attack on the union vehicles last week was apparently the participation of union members in a commemoration event. According to the information, a harvest worker who was killed by right-wing extremists in 1992 was remembered. Renate Sternatz, deputy chairwoman of the DGB-Hesse-Thuringia, said that civil society was called upon to "confront right-wing slogans, comments and statements even more decisively and to be vigilant".
Sternatz recalled that a sawed-off birch tree was discovered on Sunday at the memorial grove for victims of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp in Nordhausen. The Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation was also appalled by the renewed attack on one of the memorial sites. "Two weeks after the desecration of 13 memorial trees for victims of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, a tree has now been cut down in Nordhausen that commemorates a prisoner of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp," the foundation wrote on Twitter.
