Posted on 02/28/2017 8:07:32 AM PST by Olog-hai
When “no-go” areas are mentioned in Germany, it is usually in connection with foreign mafia families. But a UN fact-finding team have warned there are areas black men fear to enter.
“When I have to go to Brandenburg for work, I go — but I wouldn’t bring my daughter with me,” said Yonas Endrias, an adoptive Berliner.
Endrias, originally from Eritrea, has been involved for years in associations that fight discrimination against black people in Germany, and is one of dozens of people of African heritage consulted by a three-person team sent by the UN to look into racism.
“Racism is particularly bad in Saxony,” Endrias said, adding that working with Saxon law enforcement posed a real problem “because the police there don’t really know what racism is”. Even the deputy leader of Saxony admitted last year that the state’s police had a racism problem.
The Eritrean’s comments formed part of a preliminary report by the UN team on their week-long visit to Germany, presented at a press conference in Berlin on Monday. …
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Employment offices?
When I was in the military overseas there were many places enlisted men were told they could not go but it was to keep their citizens from rubbing shoulders with the uncouth ruffians who would ironically be the first to die in defense of their country....go figure.
These no-go areas are all in the part of Germany that was under Communist rule for generations.
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