By comparing fingerprints, the police in Darmstadt tracked down a man who is suspected of having badly demolished the memorial at the memorial site of the Liberal Synagogue on the grounds of the Darmstadt Clinic in mid-June 2020.
- memorial at the place of remembrance of the Liberal synagogue in Darmstadt will be damaged in mid-June 2020.
- The perpetrator bends it Seven-armed candlestick – an important religious symbol of Judaism – with brute force.
- After almost eight months, the police got in Darmstadt one Suspect determined.
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The police in Darmstadt has identified a 24-year-old man who is suspected of being the seven-armed candlestick in mid-June last year Menora, at the memorial site of those violated and destroyed by the National Socialists on November 9, 1938 Liberal synagogue having damaged.
As Chief Public Prosecutor Robert Hartmann, the spokesman for the Darmstadt Public Prosecutor, told the FR on request, the investigators came to the man through the Comparison of fingerprints on track. Hartmann said that suspicious Darmstadt residents have stated that he only wanted to comment on his lawyer. This initially got insight into files requested. So far, the authorities have not been aware that the man is politically part of the right-wing spectrum, said the spokesman for the investigating and prosecuting authorities.
Menorah at the memorial site of the Liberal Synagogue was brutally damaged
According to police investigations, that was memorial on the forecourt of the place of remembrance of the Liberal synagogue on the grounds of the Darmstadt Clinic on Monday, June 15, between 12.30 p.m. and 9.10 p.m., so brutally bent that the upper part with the seven light arms was almost on the ground.
By the following Tuesday noon, it was designed by the Darmstadt artists Helmut Lortz and Fritz Hausmann Stainless steel sculpture something straightened up again by strangers. Only in late summer did the city stop doing that memorial repair again.
Vigil in Darmstadt: shoulder to shoulder
Six days after the crime, around 250 people gathered in the square in front of the Place of remembrance of the Liberal synagogue to a Vigilto protect against damage to the Menora to protest. At the event, Darmstadt’s Lord Mayor Jochen Partsch condemned the “outrageous desecration” of the menorah.
Martin Frenzel, the chairman of the friends’ association Liberal synagogue, spoke of an “attack” and an “act of barbarism and devastation”. At the same time, Frenzel called for the memorial to be monitored with cameras.
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