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    Vandals in Berlin torch 9 cars

    BERLIN (AP) — Vandals burned another nine cars overnight Thursday in residential neighborhoods in Berlin, the latest in a string of arson attacks in the German capital.

    Police spokesman Thomas Neuendorf said on n-tv that authorities believe a single person or small group is behind the blazes and that more than 100 police personnel are involved in the investigation.

    A helicopter using a thermal camera has also been patrolling, he said.

    In the past, night-time arson attacks on luxury vehicles and SUVs in Berlin and Hamburg have been blamed on leftist extremists, but Neuendorf says the current attacks appear to be pure vandalism.

    Though such attacks have been relatively common in recent years, the current spate has attracted increased attention in the wake of the massive vandalism attacks in London — though police in Berlin say there is no indication of any link.

    Nearly 40 cars have been set on fire in Berlin over the last three days and police are offering a euro5,000 ($7,180) reward to anyone who helps them find those behind the attacks.

    "We're using every resource available to apprehend the perpetrators," Neuendorf said.

    The latest attacks came in the relatively affluent western area of Charlottenburg and two downtown areas, police said. Cars torched included three BMWs, three Audis, as well as a Ford, an Opel and a Volkswagen.

    The first attacks came just after midnight in Charlottenburg, then about an hour later near the Tiergarten park, and an hour after that in the Hohenschoenhausen area.

    Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit, who faces a state election in September, called on residents to help authorities by reporting anything suspicious that they might have seen. He noted that there are 1.2 million cars registered in Berlin and they cannot all be protected all the time.

    "In this case we're poking around a little in the dark," Wowereit said.

     

    15 comments

    • derfla  •  9 mths ago
      unknown vandals burning cars-- REASON ? not determined!--Americans know it's Muslims doing it ---My apologies SOME Americans not all
    • Captain  •  9 mths ago
      Deport all offenders...
      • derfla 9 mths ago
        captain-very-well thought out inteligent post --deport German citizens to where ? Fiji Islands-Alaska --you have two thumbs up--your intellectual pars
    • Helorider  •  9 mths ago
      Jeez, they even have Obama Zombies in Germany.
    • vartanb  •  9 mths ago
      European leaders to think about their countries and not to involve
      to other foreign countries and geremany will see very bad years
      to come if they follow the wrong country's policies.
      I told to my german friend who visited me recently in los angeles,
      california that germany will have more problem because of their
      involvement in other countries.
      If germany will follow the same what they are doing they will have
      even riots in their country and it will lose it reputation too as
      head of euro and same mistakes still sarkozy doing it.

      keep your country safe , please do not involve in other country's
      policies and if you are clever keep your country safe and your
      people too.

      bye
    • .  •  9 mths ago
      The rebels must continue their fight against Merkel's regime.

      There must be real reforms in Germany.
      • Bobbo 9 mths ago
        And destroying other peoples property helps how? You will only make the Government stronger because people will say it’s ok to trample on our liberties all in the name of preventing terror. Look what happened on Sept 11, 2001.
    • saywhatnow  •  9 mths ago
      someone catch those a-holes whoever they are.. won't point fingers but whoever did this, needs to go away for some time.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  9 mths ago
      Zionism is to blame.
    • ITOdeed  •  9 mths ago
      Good God! Is Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit a Murdoch #$%$ too, like David Cameron? I blame this vandalism on the moral decay of the British government and police, who, for political advantage, sold its soul to law breaking criminals.
    • revjohnsmythe  •  9 mths ago
      Well the Germans should take a page from Assad and start to decimate their filthy a-rab population. Hitler should have gone to work on the muslims before the jews anyway. Hey, I have a jew accountant who is really good with that pencil. I give that jew a penny and six months later he somehow gives me back a nickel!
    • guitr  •  9 mths ago
      This is being done by leftist extremists and minorities (immigrants: turks, arabs, africans etc). German authorities simply refuse to properly punish minorities, who by the way, commit most of the crimes in Germany. They are not motivated to behave. This is how they thank hard working Germans whose tax money goes to pay for their welfare and all other social benefits. All this with the blessing of cowardly German politicians and the treasonous Green party that works on getting the immigrant vote to stay in some power (yes, non-German citizens are allowed to vote!!) Immigrants and minorites have more rights than the Germans themselves in their own country! And because the Germans have been oppressed for DECADES in this way in their own country, some Germans are becoming fed up and a small nationalist movement is starting. Germany's government of cowards and traitors are to blame for this.
    • red, white and blue  •  9 mths ago
      Civilization is a fragile thing. What are the actual values of totally materialistic societies?
    • John B  •  9 mths ago
      Now did you say Berlin and did you mean St. Louis? Go to a baseball game, return to a car with not windows.........Nice city!
    • Boxcar  •  9 mths ago
      I bet the jews are behind it.
    • FrontierPrime  •  9 mths ago
      These guys do it because they like the smell of burning cars in the morning.
    • Gil  •  9 mths ago
      The majority of Muslims do not integrate in Europe and in fact have taken advantage of the welfare system to create their own primitive and supressive states within the European states they live in. Given thei high birth rate and involvment in terrorism there is no way to save Europe from Islam apart from deporting the Muslims back to their homeland in Turkey, Pakistan, Arab countries and Somalia. Deport them or we all gonna loose OR FORCED TO CONVERT TO ISLAM. These primitive supporters of terrorism should be deported.
      • wayne hrdcoc 9 mths ago
        That is the problem, They breed like Cockrochers, and have the mentality of same.
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