Video: Vandals doused 70 exhibits in Berlin museums with unknown liquid
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Unknown persons committed an act of vandalism in famous Berlin museums located on the so-called Museum Island. Die Zeit newspaper reported that at least 70 objects of art were doused with oily liquid. It is reported that this attack was one of the largest in the history of post-war Germany.
The incident took place on October 3, but then the information about it was not made public. Traces of a certain oily liquid were found in the Pergamon Museum, the New Museum, in the Old National Gallery, including on canvases of the 19th century, Egyptian sarcophagi and sculptures. The number of intruders and the motives for the crime are still unknown.
The criminal police asked for help from the citizens who visited the museum that day. Technically, it should have been easy to do, since in the coronavirus pandemic, all visitors to the museum must register.
According to The Guardian, local media associate the attack on the museum island with conspiracy theories that have been promoted by the most prominent covid dissidents in social networks over the past few months. One such theory says that the Pergamon Museum is "the site of world Satanism" because it houses a reconstructed Pergamon altar depicting the battle of the Greek gods with giants.
So, in August and September, one of the German adherents of the QAnon conspiracy movement Attila Hildman wrote in his Telegram channel that German Chancellor Angela Merkel uses the altar to sacrifice people. Hildmann later posted a Deutschlandfunk article about the attack with the words "Fact! This is Satan's throne." More than 100 thousand people have subscribed to his channel.
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