Hawzah News Agency (Ohringen, Germany) -The mosque filed a complaint, but the community has little hope that the perpetrator will be caught. Police spokesman Rainer Ott stated that there has been no concrete progress in the case.

The Aksemseddin Mosque submitted all surveillance camera material to the police, but did not request a guard for the building. However, police spokesman Ott stated that the mosque is included in their daily patrol route.

Ohringen Mayor Thilo Michler also gave moral support saying: “We strongly condemn the attack and hope that the police will find the perpetrators.”

This was not the first attack that the mosque has had to endure. In August 2015, an unknown man sprayed “Muslims should die!” on the transformer house in front of the mosque. A few weeks later, attackers threw eggs against the mosque wall. At the end of November this year, a car entered the mosque grounds as the community and Imam were leaving. The driver shouted “Dirty Foreigners” before driving off.

Hatred for refugees and Muslims has been consistent in and around Ohringen for more than a year, especially in Facebook posts and at political rallies of the right alliance “Hohenlohe wake up”. Anti-immigrant posters were seen all over the town after the political meeting of the right alliance on 9 October.

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