A 48-year-old Syrian man, Sakr B., is making headlines for his spree of attacks against German institutional buildings, this time against the German Bundestag. Other targets of his include the Interior Ministry and the Federal Constitutional Court in the last two weeks.
The Syrian is reported to have picked up a granite paving stone at a nearby construction site and hurled it at the Paul Löbe House, which is where the Bundestag meets, which was confirmed by a spokesman for the Bundestag.
Sakir B. allegedly told the police that the German government needs to transfer €21 billion to the Palestinians as he was arrested.
“The 48-year-old is to be brought before a riot court to issue an arrest warrant,” said the spokesman.
The police also noted that “at the time of the crime, Sakr B. was banned from the area of the government district by the police.”
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— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) October 13, 2024Photos show that the building suffered physical damage due to the paving stone attack, however, Sakr B. was also fined €2,400 for throwing a stone at the Federal Constitutional Court last week. Before that, he attacked the Federal Ministry of the Interior, which resulted in a reinforced bullet-proof glass window pane breaking. He also attacked the Chancellery, resulting in a piece of facade being ripped off.
The man has voiced his disapproval of Germany’s actions in relation to supporting Israel’s war in Gaza. Despite his spree of attacks, he is continously being released, only for him to strike again.
Parliamentary group vice-chair Andrea Lindholz of the CSU told Bild newspaper that “the German constitutional state must no longer allow itself to be fooled.” She complained that the man keeps being released with little consequence.
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— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) March 15, 2024“Interior Minister Faeser is watching as extremists can wreak havoc in our country three times,” said Lindholz, who urged the man to be imprisoned and “deported.”
Notably, Lindholz belongs to the CSU, which is the sister party of the Christian Democrats (CDU), the same party that allowed the man, who was born in Damascus in 1976, to enter the country in the first place. He first came to Germany under the rule of Angela Merkel in February 2015 and was granted refugee status in July 2015.
Up until 2023, he was considered to have no permanent residence, and he has wanted notices from across the country, including North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Württemberg and Hesse, along with other states.
The man has three children, but the BAMF was already seeking to end his refugee status on Jan. 6, 2025, before the man first started throwing stones.
