A day when over 700,000 people are said [7]to have taken part in marches across France in Paris, Orleans, Nice, Pau, Toulouse and Nantes, following three days of deadly attacks in the Paris area to commemorate the victims' memories, there was another attack which may be tied to the Charlie Hebdo tragedy, this time by unknown assailants who launched an incendiary device on the building of German newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost shortly after 2am local time when nobody was in the building, and which, as Bloomberg reports, had in recent days reproduced the cartoons published by Charlie Hebdo.
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The newspaper confirmed the attack on its twitted feed:
Es ist wahr: Heute Nacht gab es einen Brandanschlag auf unsere Redaktion: http://t.co/fFRbA4Yd5u [9]
— Hamburger Morgenpost (@mopo) January 11, 2015 [10]
According to Reuters, "a building of German newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost was the target of an arson attack and two suspects were arrested, police said on Sunday.
A police spokeswoman said that an incendiary device was thrown at the newspaper building in the night and documents were burned inside. Two suspects were arrested near the crime scene because they behaved in an unusual manner, she added.
AFP cites a police spokesman who said that "Rocks and then a burning object were thrown through the window. Two rooms on the lower floors were damaged but the fire was put out quickly.”
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The newspaper said on its web page that there were no people inside the building when the attack happened. Whether the arson attack was connected to the Charlie Hebdo cartoons was still under investigation, the paper added.
Bloomberg adds that two male suspects aged 35 and 39 arrested in connection with arson attack and are being questioned, police say.
From Morgenpost [12]:
Unknown gunmen allegedly thrown around in the archives shortly after 2 clock from the back yard of the building on Griegstraße stones and an incendiary device. Some files are burned there. Luckily no people were in the house at the time.
Two young men who had behaved suspiciously in the area, have been arrested, according to police. The State Security has now started the investigation. Why the attack took place is so far unclear.
"There is no knowledge, no claim of responsibility or other evidence," police spokeswoman Karina Sadowsky said this morning.
Meanwhile across Paris thousands continues to march to pay tribute to the victims of the terror attacks from the past week.
The crowd already on Place de la République... pic.twitter.com/QJVRnlC8d8 [13]
— Mark MacKinnon (@markmackinnon) January 11, 2015 [14]