Unknowns smear the electoral office in Schöneberg: Communist messages!

Unknowns smear the electoral office in Schöneberg: Communist messages!

Goebenstraße, 10783 Berlin, Deutschland - in Berlin-Schöneberg there was a unfortunate incident that should only heat up the currently high-boiled political minds. Unknown perpetrators have smeared between Tuesday, 5 p.m. and Wednesday, 8:45 a.m., the constituency office of a party in Goebenstrasse with a communist symbol and lettering that refer to the Middle East conflict. An employee of the office discovered the damage on Wednesday morning and immediately informed the police. The police security has taken over the investigation to clarify the background of this incident. This is seen as part of a larger trend, which is associated with the aggressive election campaign in the past few months, as Tixio.

Such actions are not uncommon in the current political landscape. Overall, the Bundestag election campaign 2025 is extremely rough and is accompanied by a variety of violent attacks and property damage. In the past few months, color attacks have been repeatedly committed to party centers and attacks on politicians have been reported. Especially in northern Germany, there were conspicuous incidents, as News today. Examples range from a foam throw on FDP top candidate Christian Lindner to an arson attack on an SPD bus in the Duchy of Lauenburg.

a current phenomenon

According to the criminologist Thomas Bliesener, the 2025 election campaign is a more aggressive one. The statistics show that the number of attacks has increased, but not every incident can be seen as a direct threat to the security of politicians. Six violent crimes and four were reported in Lower Saxony until the middle of the year in Lower Saxony. In Hamburg, on the other hand, there were no advertisements about campaign violence, as NDR reports. It is noteworthy that the media strength of reporting also has an impact on the display behavior regarding such attacks.

Another problem is to record politically motivated crime. The state criminal offices document several crimes, with most of them being property damage, especially on election posters. Lower Saxony reports that election posters of the AfD and the Greens are most often affected. Bliesen emphasizes that the increase in the election posters also leads to an increase in damage, since there are simply more opportunities.

Although a worrying number of attacks has been found, according to dark field research, there is no significant increase in threats to politicians in recent years. In 2024, 115 attacks on party representatives were counted and 14 property damage to party buildings were documented. The left-wing party tip recently distanced itself from an incident in which a foam attack on the FDP was carried out on the FDP and emphasizes that such acts cannot be in the sense of a democratic discussion.

The developments in the election campaign continue to be observed carefully, because every incident throws a shadow on the integrity of the political processes and the security of everyone involved.