Paint Bomb Attack at Evangelical Academy in Gießen

Case information
Incident date
Country
Germany
Categories
  • Social Hostility / Intolerance
Attack Against
  • Faith
Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
  • Private
  • Radical Left
Hate Crime & Violent Incidents
  • Vandalism (all)
  • Insult or Incitement

In the night between March 7-8, the Freien Theologischen Hochschule (FTH) building in Gießen was hit with paint bombs. An anonymous claim of responsibility was published on a left-wing internet platform

Suggesting that the attack was timed to coincide with International Women's Day, the writing on the far-left site under the headline "For women*-fight-day sexist structures tagged" refers to the attack to the school as a "visit". It refers to the FTH's Institute for Ethics and Values as conveying "a backward, deeply (hetero)sexist image of gender", and that the FTH is part of a network "which spreads a heteronormative worldview".
The posting specifically mentions the evangelical Brunnen Verlag based in Gießen and the German Institute for Youth and Society of the ecumenical community "Reichenberg Fellowship" (OJC/Reichelsheim im Odenwald) .

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