From: hooker@aristotle.ils.mwu.edu ( BOB HOOKER)
Subject: Re: Right-wingers attack immigrant backers
Organization: ILS
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 19:50:38 GMT

In article <germany-extremistsU2SC330pe@clarinet.com>,
clarinews@clarinet.com (UPI) writes:
> 
> 	BONN, Germany (UPI) -- Right-wingers and neo-Nazis stoned a group of
> people staging a vigil to support foreign immigrants, wounding four
> people and driving the pro-immigrant group away before again attacking a
> hostel for asylum seekers, officials said Saturday.
> 	Police arrested 41 rioters late Friday in the eastern German city of
> Quedlinburg, but released them later after confiscating several weapons,
> a spokesman said.
> 	About 50 people, including members of the Greens party, held the
> vigil Friday night outside the immigrant hostel to express solidarity
> with foreigners seeking a better life in Germany.
> 	But right-wingers, cheered on by hundreds of residents of the small
> eastern German city, hurled stones and beer cans at them. Four people
> were wounded and the vigil was called off.
> 	Vigil organizers then accused police of failing to prevent the attack
> and said security forces only intervened after the vigil was ended.
> 	A police official however claimed earlier intervention would have
> escalated the violence, and added participants in the vigil were aware
> of the risks.
> 	After the vigil was called off, right-wingers then hurled stones and
> gasoline bombs at the hostel, home to about 80 asylum-seekers from
> Romania, Armenia and former Yugoslavia, in the fifth consecutive night
> of violence in Quedlinburg.
> 	Earlier Friday, about 200 people -- including members of the main
> parliamentary parties -- had formed a protective cordon in front of the
> hostel. The group left at the request of the police after they came
> under attack from right-wingers backed by several hundred city residents
> chanting xenophobic slogans.
> 	Politicians and industrialists sharply condemned the right-wing
> violence.
> 	``This is a catastrophe,'' said Wolfgang Schaeuble, chairman of the
> parliamentary faction of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democratic
> Union and its Bavarian partner, the Christian Social Union.
> 	He criticized the fact that youths found guilty of similar attacks
> were only given suspended sentences.
> 	``This is unacceptable. They should be locked up,'' he said in an
> interview with the Welt am Sonntag paper.
> 	The president of the German Industry and Trade Association, Hans-
> Peter Stihl,said the violence could have serious economic repercussions
> for Germany.
> 	``We need a positive image abroad, because we have to rely on foreign
> enterprises, notably to rapidly build up eastern Germany,'' he said in
> an interview with Cologne's Express daily.
> 	The head of Germany's intelligence services in the northwestern city
> of Hamburg, Ernst Uhrlau, told the Spiegel weekly he expected right-wing
> extremism to continue spreading in Germany.
> 	``The trail of death from rightists is only starting,'' he said,
> adding that so far this year, 10 people were killed and 700 wounded in
> right-wing violence.
> 
> 
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