Four months ago, on the night of Friday January 25, 23 police vans went up in smoke in the parking lot of the police dog squad in the Bavarian capital. This happened in the west of the city, a few days before the start of the 60th Munich Security Conference, an annual forum devoted to international security issues bringing together NATO countries and their partners. This time, the incendiary attack on the police took place in the east, on Schichtlstraße in the Trudering district, home to the police cavalry squadron.
The arson attack was reported to the authorities at around 3.15 a.m. on Wednesday night (May 22), who then deployed some 70 officers and a federal police helicopter to the area in an attempt to catch the fire devils. But to no avail. The result of this attack, which the Public Prosecutor’s Office handed over to the Bavarian Central Office for Combating Extremism and Terrorism (ZET) to investigate, on the suspicion that it could be attributed to “extreme left-wing circles”? Five trucks and a trailer used to transport police horses were damaged, four of them completely destroyed, and a million euros worth of damage was caused.
Among the outraged reactions, a squadron spokesman declared that “the operational readiness of the mounted police unit has been seriously compromised”, just over a week before the Champions League soccer final (May 31), to be held in Munich’s Fröttmaninger Arena and where the police horses were due to be deployed. The president of the Munich Police Union (GdP), meanwhile, lamented that “these repeated attacks on [cops’] property are alarming – the perpetrators are becoming more and more daring”…
Since August 2023, the Munich prefecture’s special team of “Raute” [Losange] investigators has been in charge of the series of arsons targeting cell towers, railway installations and other infrastructure of domination, including that of police. On February 26, two comrades were arrested and imprisoned on suspicion of committing six of a series of some fifty arson attacks in the Bavarian region.
[German press summary (Süddeutsche Zeitung), May 22, 2025].
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Translated by Act for freedom now!
Munich (Allemagne) : après la brigade cynophile, l’escadron de cavalerie…