Activists have taken credit for an arson attack on at ThyssenKrupp Plastics GmbH distribution facility in Berlin.
An anonymous post on the Indymedia German alternative media website claimed responsibility for an Oct. 7 attack on the premises in the Ullsteinstrasse in Berlin-Tempelhof, Germany, that is used by ThyssenKrupp Plastics to store and distribute engineering plastics.
The post said the activists said that Kiel, Germany-based ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems GmbH (TKMS) — a sister company of the plastics unit — supplies corvettes, frigates and submarines to the Israeli Defense Forces, with an accusation that these warships would be involved in "genocidal" attacks on Palestinian territories.
Plastic material in several metal mesh containers outside a store building was set alight, as were two trucks, with a third truck affected by the heat of the fires.
"One of the trucks was completely destroyed, while the cabin of a second truck and the cargo area of a third truck were also damaged," police said.
ThyssenKrupp Plastics added that the flames from the containers were so high that windows in the adjoining building were damaged.
The plastics business is a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp Material Services GmbH, a company that also stores and distributes steel and non-ferrous metal products. A spokeswoman at ThyssenKrupp Material Services said: "They were trucks belonging to our logistics partners. The property is also only rented, we don't own it."
Der Tagesspiegel newspaper pointed out that several ThyssenKrupp cars had gone up in flames in Berlin in 2020, with an anonymous claim then that that too had been in protest against ThyssenKrupp armanents business.
Engineering plastics stored and distributed by online sales by ThyssenKrupp include ABS, acetal polycarbonate and ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene sheets, as well as prefabricated items such as rods shaped in Dupont's Vespel plastic and Sustarin C rods and pipe made by Lahnstein, Germany-based Röchling Sustaplast & Co. KG.
ThyssenKrupp also supplies steel materials used in mold making.