Directly after the Christmas holidays, on Sunday, December 27, 2009, a color attack was carried out on the residential and club premises of AK 44 at 6 o'clock in the morning. Initial indications suggest a right-wing extremist background to the act. But let's allow those affected to speak for themselves about the events:
On Sunday morning, December 27, 2009, around 06:00, a color attack took place on our residential and club premises. Several paint bombs were thrown against the facade and windows from the street. Already a week earlier, on the night of December 18 to December 19, 2009, a parked car in the yard or parking lot was severely damaged by having its windows smashed.
Based on some evidence, we suspect that the attacks were carried out by neo-Nazis from the area. Until November, a sticker template circulated on relevant neo-Nazi websites on the internet, depicting our cultural center in flames, with a call to crush the Antifa Giessen. Our club regularly hosts events that deal, among other things, with ideologies of the extreme right and their organizational forms. Through these events, our club has likely come into the focus of the local extreme right.
Legal action was taken against the dissemination of the sticker template on the internet. Subsequently, the operator of the Nazi homepage removed it from the web.
Comparable attacks have occurred in recent months in the region around Wetzlar. Among other things, the Franzis cultural center was damaged with paint the night before a "Rock Against the Right," and a few weeks later, the Harlekin pub was also targeted. This pub provided its premises to the "Alliance Against Nazis Wetzlar" for a lecture series.
We suspect that the attacks on our cultural center were carried out by the same group of perpetrators.
Both due to the damaged car and the color attack, a report was filed with the police.
These two incidents show that the upswing for neo-Nazis in the region of Central Hesse does not stop at the city of Giessen.
We will certainly not be intimidated by such attacks and will continue to make our premises available for antifascist events - as these attacks only underscore the importance of such engagement.
