Hanover/Groß Strömkendorf (dpa/mv) – Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig (SPD) sees a quick clarification of the cause of the fire in a refugee accommodation in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg as a priority. There are currently no new indications, she said on Friday in Hanover before the start of the Prime Ministers’ Conference. The investigation would have to be awaited. However, there is a serious suspicion that it could be arson that was aimed at the refugees. So this needs to be cleared up quickly.
“If the suspicion is confirmed, then it’s not just a bad fire, it would be a cruel and inhumane act, which must then have severe consequences.” Regardless, the fire is terrible. “Refugees lived there who had fled to Germany before the war with their last belongings. There was a one-year-old child with them,” stressed Schwesig. “It’s really close.”
In the fire on Wednesday evening, the former hotel in Groß Strömkendorf near Wismar, which housed 14 Ukrainian refugees, was almost completely destroyed. Nobody got hurt. The police assume arson and suspect a political background. State security is investigating.