From: weberwu@inf.fu-berlin.de (Debora Weber-Wulff)
Subject: Violence update 26.9.92
Reply-To: dww@inf.fu-berlin.de
Organization: Free University of Berlin
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 13:39:07 GMT

[I had to walk about 2 miles down the Kurfuerstendamm to the lab this
afternoon, the Berlin Marathon is being held. A wonderful festival with
runners from over 60 nations participating. I encountered a group of
10 youths, however, who were walking down the other side of the street
chanting "Auslaender raus!". Nobody was paying them any attention. What
should I have done? Caught up with them and scolded them? Called the
police? Ignored them? In the end I just walked on, but an uneasy feeling
remains.]

Kroepelin (Mecklinburg-Vorpommern, near Rostock): 30-40 youths attempted
to force entry into a refugee shelter with stones and molotow cocktails.
The police were able to defend the shelter and move the youth away.

Ziegendorf (M-V, near Parchim): 10-15 unknown persons smashed windows
and doors in a refugee home causing extensive damage. The five persons
living in the shelter escaped to a local parsonage.

Eichberg (M-V, near Parchim): A fire bomb was thrown into a refugee
shelter, the fire was extinguished by residents before much damage
occurred.

Erzhausen (Hesse, near Darmstadt): Unknown persons broke a window in
a "Wohncontainer" (literally, a "living box") for refugees and threw
a fire bomb into the washing area. The fire was quickly extinguished.

Beeskow (Brandenburg, near Frankfurt/Oder): A dozen right wing
youth attacked some Polish citizens. (This is near the Polish
border). A Polish travel bus was mobbed and the windshield of a
Polish car was demolished. No one was hurt in the incident.

A CDU-politician, Gerster, has called for higher penalties for 
violent demonstrators. He called for such persons to be taken into
"Sicherungsverwahrung", incarceration without trial.

Potsdam (Brandenburg): About 2000 persons participated in a human
chain around a refugee shelter in Potsdam-Babelsberg.

Cottbus: During the second day of the trial against the youths who
burned down the shelter in Schwarze Pumpe, one of the defendants
admitted that he didn't actually know any foreigners. But he knew
all about how criminal they are and much money they are given from
TV and newspapers.

Sachsenhausen (Brandenburg, near Oranienburg): Fire broke out in
one of the museum barracks at this concentration camp on the outskirts
of Berlin. Over half of the exhibition in this camp with the 
motto on the entrance gate "Arbeit macht frei", which was visited by
Rabin a few weeks ago, was destroyed. Luckily, the exponents are
all duplicates, but the barracks and a bed that were originals were
destroyed. There was no sign of arson found, and no painted slogans
usually found at the scenes of politically motivated arson, but
police are investigating. More than half of the 204,000 persons
incarcerated here between 1936 and 1945 were killed or died as a
result of the conditions in the camp. 
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