Two people have been detained following a protest at the German Chancellery that saw activists spread blood-red paint with their hands on the facade of the building, police said on Monday, reported dpa.
The activists belonged to the New Generation organization, which emerged from the Last Generation climate group.
They held up a banner with the inscription "The dirty work is bloody," a reference to Chancellor Friedrich Merz's comment during the recent Israel-Iran war that Israel was doing "the dirty work for all of us."
Federal police officers responsible for the protection of the Chancellery arrested a woman and a man.
The Berlin police took over further investigations for politically motivated property damage and violation of Berlin's Freedom of Assembly Act.
The activists are in police custody, said a police spokesman.
According to New Generation, the individuals were supporters of "Palestine Rising," a subsidiary campaign of the organization.
The man was quoted as saying, "It breaks my heart to see people dying in the Gaza Strip every day: children, women, families. The fact that our government supports this leaves me speechless."
The protest was not the group's first in connection with the war in Gaza.
In June, the famous image of the socialist fraternal kiss between Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and East German leader Erich Honecker, painted at the East Side Gallery in Berlin, was overwritten in red with "Stop Genocide."
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Source: www.dailyfinland.fi
