Overview
- The tampering at the Evangelische Schule Spandau playground, discovered Thursday, left seven children with skin abrasions that needed medical care.
- The school filed a complaint and Berlin police opened an investigation for dangerous bodily harm, with no suspects or stated motive so far.
- Unknown perpetrators fixed bent tacker staples to a climbing frame and posted stickers reading “Make Germany white again,” according to police.
- School leaders and church officials condemned the act, and the school is weighing a camera system and work with the local democracy network to bolster safety and support students.
- The campus sits on Johannesstift private property that remains open after hours, which broadens who could have entered, and coverage places the episode in a year of rising far-right crimes and fresh raids on extremist youth groups without any proven link.