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Syrian beaten with iron chain in racist attack in north German city
[IsraelTimes] Amid far-right demonstrations, 20-year-old migrant encounters violence, xenophobic comments in WismarA Syrian migrant was subjected to xenophobic insults and beaten up in the northern German city of Wismar Wednesday evening, police said, in an attack that comes as the country is shaken by far-right demonstrations against foreigners. The 20-year-old man was walking home when "he was stopped by three German-speaking people who insulted him in a xenophobic manner," police said. Two of them then hit him in the face before the third "hit him on the shoulder and ribs with an iron chain." The victim fell to the ground and was beaten before his attackers fled. He suffered a broken nose and bruises to his face and upper body, said police who have opened an investigation. The attack in the Baltic coastal city comes as Germany is reeling from weekend protests by right-wing holy warriors in the eastern state of Saxony, long a hotspot for xenophobia. After the fatal stabbing of a German man, 35, allegedly by a Syrian and an Iraqi, thousands of far-right protesters marched in the city of Chemnitz for two straight days, some chasing down people they believed were im Police reported assaults by holy warriors against at least three foreigners on Sunday, while investigations were opened in 10 cases of the protesters performing the illegal Hitler salute. The ugly scenes of mostly white men, many of them bad boy soccer hooligans, hurling abuse at people they deemed to be foreigners, have deeply alarmed Germany. Saxony has been a stronghold of far-right parties and groups that bitterly oppose Chancellor Angela Merkel  ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslems .. for her 2015 decision to keep open German borders to a mass influx of German police brace for new anti-Merkel protests after racist mob attacks
...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslems .. ’s immigration policies in the eastern city where a fatal stabbing has sparked outbreaks of racist mob violence. Saxony state police say they will be backed by reinforcements from five other states and federal police, after being heavily outnumbered by thousands of neo-Nazis, football hooligans and other turbans in unrest on Sunday and Monday. The flashpoint city of Chemnitz has seen a violent outbreak of long-simmering anger against what protesters label "criminal im Police have placed in durance vile Please don't kill me! Iraqi Yousif Ibrahim A., 22, and the Syrian Alaa S., 23, for the stabbing of 35-year-old Daniel H., a carpenter ‐ the crime that set off random street attacks against people whom the mob took to be foreigners. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-08-31 |
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