German prosecutors said that a Chinese citizen had a burning bomb at the German Embassy in Berlin and protesting the Chinese government's policy on treating ethnic minorities. It has been detained by German prosecutors attempted arson.
According to Agence France -Presse, the Berlin prosecutor said in a statement that the 42 -year -old man had been detained since then on Wednesday's arson attack on Wednesday.
The statement added that the suspect's behavior was "to protest the Chinese government's policy for ethnic minorities."
The prosecutor did not provide further details on the man's motivation, but China faced more and more international criticism due to dealing with the issue of Xinjiang minority issues.
According to the police, the suspect threw the burning device to the fence of the embassy at the time, which connected the two central urban areas of Berlin.
According to the Voice of Germany, the staff of the embassy quickly extinguished the flame in front of the exterior wall of the building with a fire extinguisher at the time, and the building itself was not affected.
Several security guards subsequently subdued the suspect in a district of several hundred meters away and handed it over to the patrol police who came.The Berlin State Criminal Police then took over the case, and then transferred to the procuratorate to continue investigating.
The human rights organization believes that at least 1 million Xinjiang Uighurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities have been detained in concentration camps in northwestern China.
China strongly denies allegations about the forced Xinjiang Uyghur labor, and said that training plans, work plans, and better education are to help eliminate extremism in the region.
