Acts of vandalism at Bern media house
Graffiti-covered facades and smashed windows: Unknown perpetrators committed acts of vandalism at and around the Berner Medienhaus on Dammweg early Tuesday morning. The building houses, among others, the offices of the newspapers *Berner Zeitung* and *Der Bund*.
The suspected perpetrators, who according to the authorities were dressed in black and wearing masks, threw paint and stones at the buildings at Dammweg 3, 7 and 9, damaging facades, windows, blinds and entrance doors, according to the regional public prosecutor's office and the Bern cantonal police.
On photos of the online portals Bernerzeitung.ch/Newsnet and Derbund.ch/Newsnet the façade defaced with black paint can be seen. The windows of a total of eight parked cars were also smashed. Damaged cars belonging to the TeleBärn and Radio BE 1 stations can be seen in the published photos. The perpetrators are on the run. Shortly before this, a building on Länggasse in Bern, including an ATM, had also been sprayed. The building houses a bank, among other things. In both cases, the perpetrators had already disappeared by the time the police arrived. They are therefore looking for witnesses.
The journalists' association Impressum and the media and communications union Syndicom condemned "the targeted acts of vandalism" in a joint press release on Tuesday. Attacks on free media are attacks on democracy and society, the statement continued. (SDA)
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