Tuesday map: Berlin’s luxury car arson outbreak

Over the last six months, more than 170 luxury cars have been set on fire in Berlin. Authorities are blaming the mysterious crime spree on left-wing radicals. But this is Google-age radicalism, as Australia’s The Age explains: A mysterious, single page website, brennende-autos.de (Burning Cars of Berlin), shows the number of cars set alight and ...

By , a former associate editor at Foreign Policy.
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Over the last six months, more than 170 luxury cars have been set on fire in Berlin. Authorities are blaming the mysterious crime spree on left-wing radicals. But this is Google-age radicalism, as Australia’s The Age explains:

A mysterious, single page website, brennende-autos.de (Burning Cars of Berlin), shows the number of cars set alight and where the crimes occurred, revealing clusters in ‘‘richer’’ areas, or in suburbs where gentrification and redevelopment are changing the demographic of local neighbourhoods.

Here a link to the page. Weird stuff.

Hat tip: Boing Boing

Joshua Keating is a former associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating

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