Erkrath. After attacks on cars by employees of the Corona vaccination center in Erkrath near Düsseldorf, the state security took over the investigation. The police do not rule out politically motivated action by anti-vaccination campaigners. “We are investigating in all directions,” said a police spokeswoman on Wednesday in Mettmann.
Strangers had placed screws and nails under the tires of several cars in such a way that they were supposed to be stabbed when starting off. In one case this also happened. In all three cars affected, ID cards from employees of the vaccination center there were visible from the outside. The injured vaccination center employee had noticed that his colleagues’ cars were also affected and could warn them in good time.
“The nails are now being examined for DNA traces,” said the police spokeswoman. It is not yet certain that it is a political crime. “There has been property damage to cars there in the past when there was no vaccination center there. Maybe someone is just annoyed about the parking lot situation. ”The police are looking for witnesses who have observed something suspicious. The nails and screws had already been discovered under the tires on Sunday. In addition, a wiper was damaged on a car.
NRW Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) and the NRW constitution protection had warned several times against a radicalization of the scene of vaccination opponents and corona deniers. So far there has been another incident at another vaccination center in North Rhine-Westphalia, according to the North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of the Interior. The employee of a security service who is deployed in the vaccination center noticed loosened wheel bolts on his car. According to the current state of knowledge, a politically motivated act can be ruled out in this case.
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