E/CN.4/1996/72 page 21 Case No. 1995/2 Allegations Place: Oberderdingen Date: 4 December 1994 7. It has been reported that there was an arson attack on a timber depot next to a house owned by a Turkish family on 4 December 1994. The residents evacuated the house immediately and no one was injured in the incident. 8. The police suspect the incident was an arson attack and that it had racist motivations since swastikas and the slogan "Ausländer raus" (foreigners out) were painted on the outer walls of the house before this incident. Observations 9. On 4 December 1994 at about 4.20 a.m., unknown offenders used a Molotov cocktail to set fire to a timber depot adjoining the house at 27 Sternenfelser Strasse in Oberderdingen, as a result of which the depot burned to the ground and the fire spread to the dividing wall between it and the house. Four members of the Turkish family living there were injured when they fled from the house. 10. Because a sheet of paper had been found on 30 November 1994 in front of the property, with the words "Türken raus" (Turks out), and, according to the family concerned, several swastikas had already been chalked onto the wall of the house, the investigations carried out by Karlsruhe public prosecution office in respect of attempted serious arson initially presumed that there was a xenophobic background. However, the result of the investigations carried out by the criminal police do not make it possible to exclude the possibility that the arson attack was not xenophobically motivated. 11. In spite of the fact that the public prosecution office offered a reward of 2,000 deutsche marks for clues leading to identification or apprehension of the offender or offenders, no concrete clues emerged. For this reason, the investigation proceedings had to be discontinued on 30 March 1995 because no offender could be identified. Case No. 1995/3 Allegations Place: Reichelsheim Date: 12 December 1994 12. It has been reported that there was an arson attack on the house of the Cakmak family (of Turkish origin) in the village of Reichelsheim near Friedberg, Frankfurt, on 12 December 1994. The fire was started by an explosion in the entrance hall. A plastic gasoline container was found on the stairs after the fire was extinguished.