Posted on 08/21/2007 9:32:21 PM PDT by design engineer
The victims were all from India -- their attackers, possible neo-Nazis. A small town in Saxony confronts the possibility of right-wing extremists in their midst.
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Early on Sunday morning following the annual Mügeln municipal festival, Singh and seven of his compatriots were pursued across town -- a regular manhunt -- following an apparently harmless jostle on the dance floor. An angry mob made up of dozens of festival-goers chased down the Indians before severely beating them -- shouting racist insults all the while. Six of the pursued made it into Singh's pizzeria and locked themselves in. The rioters kicked in the front and back doors. Windows were smashed and Singh's car was demolished. Only a large squad of 70 policemen was able to force the romping crowd back, although the policemen were themselves attacked using bottles, glasses and benches. The violent rampage left 14 wounded, including four of the attackers, two policemen and all eight Indians.
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However, it is perfectly OK for these German savages to act in such an uncivilized and sub-human manner ?
FYI, Indians have NEVER beaten up any group of people of any non-Indic races, whether they are Germans or Americans or Africans or Chinese in this manner, solely due to their race..
National socialists are “right-wing” now?
I hope they are not profiling people with shaved heads and wearing leather. That wouldn’t be nice
The worrisome factor is not the 50 people attacking. What other reports state is that the rest of the village crowd was cheering on the neo-Nazis.
Gosh and by golly, I need to remember how India and Pakistan became two countries after a long and peaceful time of being taught the English language.
You sound like you are attacking people who have not even commented yet. What do you think we are? Of course this is unforgivable. I do not get your hostility towards people not yet identified. Sheesh!
Not one arrest made yet, IIRC.
Relax, its just a bunch of Indians who got beaten. If it were Muslims, Amnesty Intl would be all over the place.
We get no protection from PC police like blacks and muslims get, unless its a rare “macaca” moment.
Malaysia Sun
Tuesday 21st August, 2007
(IANS)
http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/275373/cs/1/
It is not a scene that residents of the small town in the eastern German state of Saxony like to look back at.
A mob of around 50 young Germans chased a group of eight Indians across the main square, forcing them to take shelter in a pizzeria owned by one of their countrymen.
When the pursuers reached the restaurant, they kicked on the doors and vandalised the owner’s car.
The violence came during a festival in the town of 5,000 Saturday evening, which took a dramatic turn, resulting in injuries to the eight Indians.
Witnesses said some of the mob chanted Nazi slogans with onlookers staring impassively as the gang set about their victims.
The mood in the town was muted Monday.
Locals avoided journalists who had come to learn at first hand what happened in Muegeln, 45 km east of Leipzig and 50 km west of Dresden, Saxony’s two largest cities.
Mayor Gotthard Deuse of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) sought to play down the xenophobic motives of the attack.
‘There is no right-wing scene here,’ he said. If the incident had a racially motivated background, then the assailants must have come from neighbouring areas, he added.
One of the victims, Govinda, said he had never encountered any racial hostility before in Muegeln. The 26-year-old’s friend, Kulvir Singh, said that he, too, had not been harassed in the five months he had lived there.
Now their faces are bruised and swollen and they are covered with cuts from flying glass.
Some locals said that right-wing radicals had announced in advance they planned to come to the festival, an indication that trouble was to be expected.
Mayor Deuse was quoted in the Leipziger Volkszeitung newspaper as saying that he had received a tip-off from the local youth club and had alerted police to the potential danger.
Right-wing rock groups have staged concerts in the region around Muegeln and there is also a mail order business in the town specialising in right-wing music.
Police would not rule out the attack was racially motivated, but said they were pursuing various lines of inquiry.
‘The whole affair has gained momentum,’ said police spokeswoman Ilka Peter.
Police are now under enormous pressure to find the culprits after coming under criticism for keeping quiet about the incident for more than 20 hours.
Witnesses said it took around one hour for police to arrive on the scene after the violence erupted. About 70 officers eventually restored calm.
Two Germans aged 21 and 23 were detained after the attack, but later released. One of the injured Indians was still in hospital Monday.
Saxony is one of the states formerly part of communist East Germany, which have seen disproportionate rates of violence against foreigners since German reunification in 1990.
The belated police response was reminiscent of events in the neighbouring state of Saxony Anhalt where officers have come under fire for their handling of attacks by right-wing extremists on a group of actors in Halberstadt in June and a Vietnamese family in Burg earlier this month.
The last serious incident involving right-wingers in Saxony occurred in February when a group of about 20 skinheads broke up an anti-discrimination meeting in a cafe and injured two of the participants.
Local citizens groups claimed there was ‘a strategy of silence’ among the authorities when it came to right-wing tendencies in the state and appealed to the state government to stress the dangers emanating from right-wing extremism.
Saxony state premier Georg Milbradt, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, said he would visit the town Monday evening for a first-hand look at the situation.
What the hell are you smoking? There's no anti-Indian crowd on FR.
FYI, Indians have NEVER beaten up any group of people of any non-Indic races, whether they are Germans or Americans or Africans or Chinese in this manner, solely due to their race..
How do you know that?
Here’s a bit of irony for this situation: the folks who originally settled in India were known as “Aryans”.
A link in the same article....
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,486165,00.html
How NEO NAZIS harass 14 year old jewish kids playing soccer in Germany....
‘YOU JEWISH PIG’
Severe Anti-Semitism Hits Youth Football in Germany
By Heike Baldauf
They were two teams of 14-year-olds. But that didn’t seem to matter. Right-wing fans rained anti-Semitic and racist insults down on a youth-league game in Eastern Germany last month. Police are investigating, but it’s far from an isolated incident.
The Ascension Day holiday was to be a big day for the football community in Wurzen, a small town of 15,000 near Leipzig in former Communist-ruled East Germany. The local junior league had a match scheduled with a team from the industrial city of Chemnitz, formerly known as Karl-Marx-Stadt and located near the Czech border.
A number of fans had found their way to the stadium and by the time the whistle blew for kick-off, they were in high spirits, swilling beer and chanting supporters’ songs. The usual horde of young neo-Nazi skinheads and xenophobes were in the stands, looking for trouble.
Then the taunts began. The fans struck up a welcoming chorus for the visiting junior soccer team: “We’ll build a subway from Chemnitz to Auschwitz...” You “Fiji pigs,” they yelled at two 14-year-olds who were subbed in. You “foreigner pigs!” They made monkey noises every time they touched the ball.
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They also targeted the 14-year-old goalkeeper from the visiting team: “Jewish pig, go f**k your Jewish mother,” they yelled.
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The crowd didn’t just target the visitors. A linesman flagged an offside call, earning him a torrent of abuse including: “Get it right, Jew, or we’ll come and pull your foreskin off.
Must be all those Pakistani FReepers. ;-D
i personally am ambivalent about India....which you must be too btw or you’d still be there and not here.
i notice you attack folks who say disparaging things about India using the same stereotyping and smearing that you claim you hate when folks do the same to India
just because you are here now, it’s not reasonable to expect folks here to see the world your way.
and to equivocate US and Indian culture....they are not relative or equivocal...granted India has improved but it’s still the third world and has acute cultural issues
but...there are things I like about India....the family, the respect for one’s heritage..
i dated an Indian girl in Whitehall back in the mid 80s.....her family were high caste and very racist...towards me as well. she could only marry an Indian and her family looked down on me...which I coulda cared less about since she was so yummy
given what folks like me know from having been there and knowing Indians and the culture what gives you the right to finger point and use the racist smear on us?
your culture is no different...and arguably much worse.
problem is any minority in the west today thinks they can play victim....even bourgeois Indian engineers
In the 1936 ‘Nazi’ Olympics, India had defeated Germany in the hockey finals, 8-1, but there was no controversy supposedly because the Third Reich considered Indians ‘Indo-Aryans.’
Lol!
India had a hockey team? That’s almost as absurd as, say, Jamaica having a bobsled team.
I dont have an agenda.
There are possibly a million things that India lacks which I wish it hadnt, but the policy of “live and let live” is not one of them.
This issue needs to be discussed as this seems to be a growing trend in Germany.
wardaddy,did you ever see the movie,Mississippi Masala with Denzil Washington and this FINE Indian women,last name of Choudrey?
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