Unknown persons have desecrated the graves of the two murdered Berlin police officers Roland Krüger and Uwe Lieschied. At the park cemetery in Berlin’s Neukölln district, Lieschied’s gravestone was demolished and, like Roland Krüger’s stone, sprayed with a red swastika. The perpetrators also tore out the flowers and scattered them along the paths. The crimes took place in the cemetery at Buckower Damm during the night to Wednesday. According to a police spokesman, the crimes were discovered in the morning by cemetery employees.The Office for the Protection of the Constitution has taken over the investigation because of the swastika symbols. The deputy district mayor of Neukölln, Falko Liecke (CDU party), got a first-hand impression of the situation. He has been working for a long time to rename Fontane street to Uwe Lieschied and market place Britz-Süd to Roland Krüger.
Special task force officer Roland Krüger was killed in April 2003. He and his colleagues stormed the apartment of a large Kurdish-Lebanese family known to the police in the Rollberg district of Neukölln. He was shot dead by Yassin A.. He was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for murder and is now free again. When he was to be deported to Lebanon last year, a court stopped the deportation of the murderer, which caused widespread public outrage.Uwe Lieschied, the then 42-year-old Chief Inspector, and two colleagues travelled to Neukölln as civil investigators in March 2006. When they saw two men robbing a woman in the airport street, they ordered the perpetrator to stop. He shot eight times from close range and killed Uwe Lieschied. The perpetrator Mehmet E. was sentenced to life imprisonment – at least 15 years – for murder.In 2016 a commemorative plaque for Uwe Lieschied was desecrated. At that time, members of the left-wing radical scene had confessed and mocked the murdered on the Internet.In the meantime, colleagues of Uwe Lieschied set about repairing the desecrated graves.