From: thomke@mtl.mit.edu (Stefan Thomke)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german
Subject: Re: Violence update 9.10.92
Date: 11 Oct 92 16:55:49 GMT
Organization: MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories

In article <51R734D@math.fu-berlin.de> dww@inf.fu-berlin.de writes:
>[Back on-line. I won't try to recap what happened last week. Let it
>suffice to say that there was violence and desecrations of graves
>throughout the week. The newspapers in Paderborn reported on other
>incidents that were in the Berlin papers. See the paragraph on Konkret.]
>
>The Bundestag has passed a resolution in which they condemn the
>violence against foreigners. A few figures: 320,000 refugees have
>entered Germany to date in 1992. There have been 10 foreigners killed
>in acts of violence and 405 "Anschlaege" to date. The figures for
>last year were 3 dead and 383 Anschlaege. The East/West distribution
>of 1296 "Gewalttaten" for 1992 to date: 813 West and 483 East. [No idea
>what the classifications Anschlaege and Gewalttaten mean exactly.]
>80% of the offenders are under 20 years of age.
>
>Berlin: The youth who killed the cigarette-selling Vietnamese has been
>sentenced to 4 1/2 years in jail. The judge noted in his judgement that
>the deed was not so much motivated be foreigner hate but by anger at his
>own situation.

4 1/2 years ! You must be kidding. He kills a man and "gets a slap on the
wrist". When is he eligible for parole ? Next year ?

>
>Mellenburg (Lower Saxony, near Hannover): Three men threw two fire bombs
>at a refugee shelter. No one was hurt in the incident.
>
>Karlsruhe: Two youth, aged 21 and 24, have been arrested in connection
                ^^^^^
21 and 24 seems pretty grown-up to me.

>with the defacing of graves. The article was accompanied by a picture of
>the graveyard with white spraypainted slogans: "Rache fuer...", "Nie
>wieder Juden", and "Jude verrecke" (especially intelligent, the person
>buried here is in fact already dead).
>
>I bought a "Konkret" magazine to read in the train, they have a lovely
>picture on the cover of a man in soccer dress with the German national
>team's emblem on, his hand streched out in the "Heil Hitler" greeting,
>who has wet his pants in excitement. Joachim Bruhn contrasts this in 
>an article with the reason many give for hating gypsies, that the gypsies
>"just shit where they are standing". Konkret also has a column called
>"Jeder ist uns der Naechste", which appears to be a regular column and is
>number 9 in the series. A group called "Archiv fuer Sozialpolitik"
>puts together a daily list of incidents. For the period 12.8-8.9 they
>have 139 incidents. I will try and get the address of this archive
>for persons interested in the documentation. I do not, however, have
>time to make copies of the articles. Please contact Konkret at
>"Gremliza Verlags GmbH, Postfach 30 61 39, 2000 Hamburg 36", Tel.
>(040) 43 10 84 for obtaining copies of the October 1992 issue.
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Stefan