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According to police spokesman,
unknown attackers threw glass bottles filled with a thick and sticky liquid at
the front of the building in Neue Jakobstraße, (The name of the street where
the embassy is situated).
The spokesman said the police have
handed over the investigation of the incident to state security authorities,
adding that political motive may not be ruled out in the attack.
The police said security workers
noticed the damage to the building on Thursday morning.
The spokesman said that on Monday,
120 activists, members of the “Refugee Protest March in Berlin campaign”
gathered in front of the Nigerian Embassy to demonstrate against the practice
of deporting asylum seekers from Germany.
According to him, 14 of the
activists illegally entered to the embassy, in order to “occupy'' it as part of
the protest march.
He explained that those who entered
the premises were later ejected by security officials while 25 of the
protesters were temporarily detained and later released.
The spokesman stated that the
demonstrators accused the embassy workers of “working closely with the German
state to ensure that the processing of the largest number of deportations from
Africa came from Nigeria''.
He emphasised that his agency would,
however, investigate if there was a connection between the attempted occupation
of the embassy on Monday and the recent paint attack on Wednesday night to the
early hours of Thursday. (NAN)
Source: Vanguard
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