06/15/2024 – 11:34
Group of young people insulted and physically attacked two girls aged eight and ten. One of them was kicked in the face. Crime occurs in the north of the country. The wave of racism and xenophobia that Germany is experiencing had another chapter this Friday (14/06). In the north of the country, two Ghanaian girls, aged eight and ten, were insulted and attacked by a group of young people. According to police, one of the perpetrators kicked one of the girls in the face.
The crime took place in Grevesmühlen, in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The attackers were up to eight people from a group of 20 young people. They allegedly attacked the children in Ploggenseering at around 7:30 p.m. When the girls’ parents arrived, they were also attacked.
The father and youngest daughter were taken to a hospital with minor injuries. The police investigate suspected breaches of the peace, dangerous bodily harm, incitement to hatred and insult and are looking for witnesses.
The mayor of Grevesmühlen, Lars Prahler, condemned the attack. “This racially motivated act simply leaves me stunned. It shows baseless hatred and uninhibited inhumanity and cannot be excused. Not even because [os perpetradores] they are young”, he said in an interview with Radio NDR 1 MV.
According to him, the city festival scheduled for this Saturday will not be canceled despite the incident. “We do not want to allow such actions by fringe groups to dictate how we want to live together as a society,” he explained.
The Secretary of the Interior of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Christian Pegel (SPD), also strongly condemned the attack. “You don’t attack people, especially children, and certainly not for racist reasons,” he said, highlighting that there is no place for racism in society.
Growth of the AfD
The attack on Ghanaian girls comes just under a week after the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party became the second big winner of the European elections, winning 15 seats – an increase of almost 50% compared to 2019, when the party had 11 MEPs were elected. Originally, the party had elected 16 parliamentarians, but ended up later expelling MEP Maximilian Krah, who weeks earlier had made a statement relativizing the history of the SS, a Nazi-era paramilitary organization.
In January, AfD politicians attended a meeting with an Austrian extremist leader in which there was talk of mass deportations of immigrants. The party, however, denies any plans to adopt such a proposal and states that it was not a partisan event.
wave of attacks
Three weeks ago, a viral video with a racist and xenophobic chant sung by young people on the island of Sylt, a holiday resort for the German elite in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, also in the north, caused outrage across the country.
The group performed a parody of a popular song, chanting: “Germany for the Germans. Foreigners, out.” One of the young men raised his right arm, in what appeared to be a Nazi salute, banned in Germany, and, with two fingers over his mouth, imitated Adolf Hitler’s mustache.
Also recently, at a football game in the western state of Hesse, a fan gave the Nazi salute after the end of a local league match. In Rhineland Palatinate, also in western Germany, police closed a private party due to unconstitutional chanting. There were also records of racist chants at popular public festivals in the states of Bayern, in the south, and Lower Saxony, in the north.
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