A group of about 14 unknown vandals attacked the residential building in Hamburg where Federal Minister of Finance and Deputy Chancellor Olaf Scholz lives.
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The group then fled. State protection is now investigating the incident.
The SPD politician himself was not in his apartment at the time of the attack. Scholz departed for the G20 summit in Buenos Aires on Thursday.