soc.culture.german: Violence Update

Violence update - December 1993

Ich habe in den Jahren 1992-1994 für die Usenet-Forum soc.culture.german über viele Fälle von rechts-gerichteter Gewalt berichtet, die mit kleine Notizen in den Zeitungen erschienen sind. Ich habe einige wiedergefunden über Google, ich verlinke sie hier mit einer Überblick.

3 December 1993
Lund, Stockholm (Sweden): Right-wing Swedish youth and left-wing Danish youth clashed on Noverber 30 when the Danes tried to stop the Swedes from celebrating Carl XII, the so-called "hero king". A number of people were injured, many Danes arrested and deported.

Germany/Denmark: A pamphlet available from a post office box address in Denmark published in German is causing an uproar in Germany. "Der Einblick" (the insight), subtitled "against the red tide" and "anti- anti-racisits", attempts to encourage right-wing violence. Along with a number of articles with racist and extreme right-wing content there is a list of 250 persons in Germany with addresses and descriptions. These persons include parliamentarians, teachers, professors, social workers, politicians, and a number of others who have spoken out against Neo- Nazis in the past. The reader is encouraged to give these persons "something to think about" and to cause them some "sleepless nights". The German authourites have been unable to trace the person or persons publishing this pamphlet.
12 December 1993
The "Berliner Zeitung" reports that the fire department rescued a wheel-chair bound Ethiopian man on Thursday. The 36-year old man who was injured in the war in Ethiopia in 1978 and had lived in East Germany since 1979 is the vice-chair of the Handicapped Foundation of Germany (ABiD). He and his family have been threatened since the summer of 1992, when one evening a neighbor rang the bell and announced that he had "become a Nazi", and he would throw a hand grenade in the apartment if the children didn't stop playing ball in the courtyard. The neighbor once tried to break down the door (the police came, but didn't do anything since the neighbor had left) and the tires of the wheelchair have been knifed seven times. The family has registered all of the incidents with the police, with no effect. On Thursday a new, 3-week old wheel-chair "burst" into flames and was reduced to ashes and twisted metal. The police needed 6 hours to respond after the fire department notified them. A "misunderstanding", the police chief says.
The 9 neo-Nazis that escaped from prison are back under lock and key. The Berliner Zeitung has an article about the prison, one out of three prisoners is in for a right-wing crime. The paper does not mention how many are in the prison all together.

The radio reports this morning that a group of armed skinheads burst into a restaurant in Sachsen-Anhalt and "shot up" the place, 4 persons were seriously injured.
13 December 1993
The Tagespiegel reports this morning that a group of skinheads threw another citizen of Liberia out of a subway train, this time at around 1am and while the train was stationary. The man suffered a broken nose.
17 December 1993
The Tagespiegel reports this morning that this "attack" was a hoax. The man from Liberia has admitted that he broke his nose in a fall after having drunk one too many, he made up the story because a "brother" also from Liberia had been attacked earlier this week. [Sigh. We have enough trouble without some smart-aleck pulling stuff like this. People will *remember* this sort of thing for ages, and will doubt the veracity of future attacks. -- dww]