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Why do I have to enter my email address? June 18, 2019 – 09:47 dpa fact check # The local police are not aware of any damage to churches Berlin (ots) Attacks on church buildings are said to have increased sharply in Germany. This claim is currently circulating on the Internet. Accordingly, it should be in the The southern region of Baden-Württemberg is increasingly causing property damage on and in churches have come. EVALUATION: The claim is false. None of the incidents mentioned in the report stands up to scrutiny. FACTS: The police headquarters responsible for the region are not responsible Incidents known. «In the last few weeks and months nothing has happened Direction happened,” said a spokesman for the Freiburg police headquarters Inquiry. A single crime in the report appears to have actually occurred. Not recently, as suggested, but more than five years ago years. This is how a Catholic parish in Kenzingen (Emmendingen district) becomes quoted as follows: “For weeks it has been happening regularly that in the City church of St. Laurentius in Kenzingen church inventory misused or is destroyed. The Catholic parish asks the population to to report suspicious behavior. However, should these incidents occur Repeat, we are unfortunately forced to visit the church outside under certain circumstances to close the church service times.” ( This text is taken out of its temporal context. He became one Report from the Badische Zeitung from January 21, 2014 adopted. Just a part of The text issued as a quote comes from the pastor at the time. In 2014 had the parish is increasingly registering “unsightly incidents” - up to and including a swastika graffiti on an outside wall of the church. ( The current pastor, Klaus Fehrenbach, knows about smaller ones Reporting damage in the past few months, but “really broken “Basically nothing has been done.” That the sacrificial box is broken open, Unfortunately, it's nothing unusual and happens occasionally. That's why he plans to close the church outside opening hours, as claimed in the article becomes? “No, we won’t close it,” said the priest. One like this He never made any statement. The image used comes from a television report from Südwestrundfunk (SWR). You can see a damaged figure from a small church in the Westerwald. Vandalism had indeed occurred in this church. The one in that Criminologist Christoph Pfeifer, who was interviewed about this, suspects that it is The perpetrators are primarily people “who are massively frustrated by the Church". Political motivations are unlikely. «The majority of Damage to property is committed by people who are simply looking for an object that is taken into account.” ( BKA information also does not support the statement mentioned at the beginning. Since January 2017 The authority also records crimes separately in the subtopics “anti-Zyganist”, “anti-Christian”, “Islamophobic” and “other ethnicity». For 2018, a total of 121 Anti-Christian crimes registered. Last year there were 129 been. ( Overall, the crimes in the hate crime area increased in 2018 At 8,113, there was a slight increase compared to the previous year (7,913). Decisive for this According to the statistics, however, they were particularly xenophobic crimes. ( ``` --- ``` Left: Article at “haolam.de”: Article in “Badische Zeitung”: Data on politically motivated crime: ``` --- ``` Contact the dpa fact check team: faktencheck@dpa.com © dpa German Press Agency GmbH. The above contents are protected by copyright. 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Attacks on church buildings are said to have increased sharply in Germany This claim is currently circulating on the Internet Accordingly there is said to have been an increase in property damage to and in churches in the southern region of BadenWürttemberg