A book by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has the word “Plagiarist” scribbled in at the library Tempelhof-Schoeneberg in Berlin on December 8, 2023. Damaged covers, scribbled political messages, torn out pages: in a municipal library in Berlin, traces of acts of vandalism cover an entire table and testify to a “culture war” attributed to the far right.//AFP
Defaced and destroyed, books torn up and political messages scrawled across their pages: the evidence of an alleged far-right vandalism spree at a city library in Berlin covers an entire table.
“The first reaction was confusion, then outrage, when we realised what had happened here,” Boryano Rickum, chief librarian for Tempelhof-Schoeneberg district, told AFP.
The incident — the work of a single suspect — was not however a one off.
The library at Berlin’s Technical University is also thought to have…
