Second time burned-down hotel has been targeted | DW News

Police in the northern German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania said on Thursday that they were investigating whether there was a political motivation behind the fire at a shelter for Ukrainian refugees near the town of Wismar that had broken out the night before.

The case was initially being handled by the police department of Rostock, a city northeast of Wismar, but they said later that it had been handed over to state security services to determine the circumstances behind the suspected case of arson.

Rostock police vice-president Michael Peter said: "Every attack on refugees or their accommodations is also an attack on our basic values — such an attack is both shocking and unacceptable."

Officials said that relevant fire experts had been dispatched to the scene to investigate.

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