Violence and harassment in Germany
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Round-up from the press Oct-Dec 2004 on racial incidents
Trial of neo-Nazis who attacked and seriously injured a punk on 17 April and beat him with iron bars while shouting 'White power' and 'Sieg Heil'. Prosecutor's office does not recognise any intent to kill or rightwing motivation.
8 December 2004 (504 words)
Youth sentenced to nine years for deliberate murder of Russians
The district court in Ellwangen (Baden Württemberg) sentenced an 18-year-old youth, Leonhard S.(a minor when the crime was committed) to nine years in prison for the deliberate killing on 19 December 2003 of three young Russians of German extraction in front of a Heidenhiem disco.
1 December 2004 (92 words)
Fresh inquiry hope over Jewish student's death
The mother of Jeremiah Duggan, who was killed by cars in a Wiesbaden road in 2003, after attending a far-right extremist meeting, is hoping that with a German lawyer handling the case, an inquiry might be reopened into the death.
8 November 2004 (52 words)
A round-up of reports from the press on racial incidents between April and July
Halberstadt (Saxony-Anhalt) asylum seeker attacked
18 September 2004 (740 words)
Cologne bomb injures 17
A bomb packed with nails ripped through a crowded shopping street in a Turkish quarter of Cologne on 9 June, injuring 17 people.
9 July 2004 (100 words)
Focus on extreme-Right in Berlin
Police in Berlin and the eastern state of Brandenburg have arrested seven extremists following a long investigation.
19 April 2004 (187 words)
British pressure to reopen investigation into killing of Jewish student
The mother of a British student who died in mysterious circumstances in Wiesbaden after attending a far-Right meeting at the Schiller institute has persuaded the British Foreign Office to press the German authorities to reopen the case.
2 April 2004 (132 words)
Racial violence across the country
Reports from the Frankfurter Rundschau reveal a continual and consistent level of racial violence.
31 March 2004 (382 words)
Guben still a Nazi stronghold
Five years after Faarid Guendoul was hounded to death by neo-Nazis through the streets of Guben (Brandenburg), the right-wing scene still dominates the town.
11 February 2004 (84 words)
Thorsten Heise plans neo-Nazi centre in rural idyll
The well known neo-Nazi leader, Thorsten Heise, has settled peacefully into the village of Fretterode where local people are quite happy to allow him to have regular gatherings of neo-Nazis.
15 January 2004 (96 words)
Russian ethnic German beaten in Mahlow
On the night 6/7 December 2003, four young right-wingers attacked and almost beat to death a Russian German not far from the restaurant at Mahlow (Brandenburg)station.
1 January 2004 (61 words)
Extreme-Right links to racist killings
Baden-Württemberg: Russians stabbed to death
1 January 2004 (257 words)
Bremen policeman accused of sexual abuse
A police officer, now suspended, is alleged to have sexually abused women held in pre-deportation detention between 1998 and 1999.
14 November 2003 (55 words)
Monitoring racist attacks across the country
The Documentation and Information Centre for Research on Racism reports the following attacks:
1 November 2003 (555 words)
Braunschweig: investigation into police beating of African
Five police officers are alleged to have severely mistreated a 31-year-old Nigerian at the end of August in Braunschweig.
11 September 2003 (111 words)
NPD official sentenced
A prominent former NPD official Maik Spiegelmacher and another man have been given prison terms for beating an 18-year-old youth, blindfolding him and tying him naked to a lamppost.
1 September 2003 (54 words)
Murder of Marinus Schöberl: trial begins
Just three citizens of Potzlow (Brandenburg) were present at the trial of three neo-Nazi youths who, one year ago, tormented and humiliated a local youth, Marinus Schöberl (with a speech defect) for many hours, made him call himself 'Jew' and then killed him with a 'kerb kick' derived from the film American History X.
1 September 2003 (189 words)
Victims of racist crime to be deported
Despite appeals from the organisation Victims' Perspective, the Aliens Office in Rathenow has decided that a 40-year-old Togolese, who had been racially attacked in two separate incidents and is the principal witness in a forthcoming trial of a racist thug, has to be deported from Germany.
1 August 2003 (88 words)
Asylum hostel arsons and other attacks on refugees
Werdau: investigation launched
1 July 2003 (321 words)
Youth killed because they thought he was Jewish
Three members of an extreme-Right organisation have been charged with the murder of Marinus Schöberl, a 16-year-old youth, with serious learning difficulties, whose body was discovered in a cesspit in Potzlow, Neuruppin, Brandenburg in November 2002.
1 February 2003 (317 words)
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