Brand series in Amt Neuhaus: Two cars on flames! Police are looking for witnesses!

in the municipality of Amt Neuhaus in the district of Lüneburg, there was a fire on Tuesday night, in which two cars went on fire. As ndr.de Fire registered on Monday evening at around 6 p.m., the second fire only two hours later, around 300 meters away.

The estimated property damage is around 25,000 euros. The Lüchow police assume arson, as fires have occurred again and again in the past two years without any recognizable natural cause or technical defect. This is the third fire in just two nights. In the past few months, garden and other objects have also been lit in the municipality for no apparent cause, whereby the fires were getting bigger.

police asks for help

The Lüchow police have started an investigation and asks Witnesses to report on the phone number (0581) 12 22 15. The continued suspicion of arson and the frequency of the fires according to the pattern described lead to an increased concern in the region.

Another incident that could possibly be connected to these repeated arson attacks occurred on October 28, 2024 in the neighboring community of Niendorf. Here a fire was reported in a barn on the main street. The fire brigade was busy with the extinguishing work until the evening in the evening of the following day. Large amounts of straw bales were stored in the barn, and the damage caused by property is estimated at 200,000 euros. In this case too, the police do not rule out arson, as presseportal.de reported.