Berlin: The building had previously received threats of death and shots fired at it, according to the first black constable in Germany, whose offices had been the target of an arson attack.

Happy to report that nobody was hurt, Social Democratic Party (SPD) delegate Karamba Diaby tweeted. I'm upset by this action," he said, announcing that his offices would be closed for some time.

A man was detained at the scene by witnesses who were alerted by the flames late on Wednesday, and a judge ordered that he be taken into custody. Diab, a German with Senegalese ancestry, claimed that the offender had previously made racist remarks to him.

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"I'm horrified that a new, cowardly attack has been carried out against the constituency office of my Bundestag colleague," SPD co-president Saskia Esken said.

61-year-old Diaby was born in Senegal but has been a German citizen since 2001.
After discovering holes in a window of his constituency office that appeared to have been made by a pellet gun in 2020, he claimed to have received death threats from right-wing extremists.

Concern over the rise in incidents that target deputies is growing in Germany. threats of death to assaults and verbal abuse. The rise of the far right has resulted in a more divisive political environment.

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Politician Walter Luebcke was murdered in June 2019 by a neonazi activist, a crime that shocked the nation and brought attention to the threat of right-wing extremism.

Luebcke, a conservative politician, had defended Angela Merkel's pro-immigration policies when she was chancellor.

Prosecutors filed treason charges against five Germans in January in connection with a far-right plot to overthrow the government that included schemes to kidnap the health minister.

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And in a separate investigation, police reported in December that they had discovered a plot by a far-right group to overthrow the government, which included a former constable and an aristocrat.