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Black German fights for life after attack
POTSDAM, Germany, April 18 (UPI) -- A German man of African origin is fighting for his life after being brutally beaten up by Neo-Nazis.
Although the police have no official leads on the horrific Easter morning attack in Potsdam, in the state of Brandenburg, near Berlin, observers expect the perpetrators to have come from the city's Neo-Nazi scene.
The victim, a 37-year-old engineer of Ethiopian descent, is in intensive care after he was kicked in the head by at least two people. Doctors have placed him in an artificial coma to reduce the swelling on his brain. His condition is being described as critical, according to Deutsche Welle Online.
The most important clue is a telephone call the victim made to his German wife's answering machine, where the attackers can be heard shouting 'dirty nigger' while the victim pleads with them to stop.
Potsdam officials said the incident is isolated and not part of a trend of growing racism in the region.
Brandenburg's Interior Minister Joerg Schoenbohm said there would be strong penalties for the attempted murder.
"In this country we do not tolerate that extremists chase, beat up or even murder people because of their skin color, religion or political positions," he said at a news conference Monday.
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STUDENT MURDER IN RUSSIA 'RACIST'
A Senegalese student has been killed by unidentified gunmen in the Russian city of St Petersburg, in what police believe is a racially-motivated attack.
Lamzar Samba was shot as he and his friends left a night club in the centre of Russia's second-largest city.
It is the latest in a wave of recent attacks in the city on foreigners and members of ethnic minorities.
A nine-year-old girl of mixed Russian and Malian parentage was seriously injured in a stabbing in March.
Last week, a teenager was acquitted of stabbing a nine-year-old Tajik girl to death in 2004.
Swastika sign
The attack on a group of African students took place early on Friday on the 5th Krasnoarmeyskaya Street, police in St Petersburg said.
They said the murder was racially-motivated, after finding a shotgun with a swastika sign on it near the scene of the attack.
Desire Defait, head of St Petersburg's African Unity organisation, said the assailants opened fire on the group of about six after they left the club.
"As a result, one of them fell and it turned out he (Lamzar Samba) was dead. The attacker shot from behind and no-one saw how many there were," Mr Defait told the AFP news agency.
Lamzar Samba had been studying in St Petersburg's telecommunications institute.
The city has recently seen an increase in violent attacks on foreigners and members of ethnic minorities.
On 25 March, the nine-year-old girl of Russian and Malian parentage was seriously injured in a stabbing attack, which prosecutors believe was racially-motivated.
Last December, a Cameroonian student was stabbed to death and a Kenyan national was wounded in attacks across St Petersburg.
Racist violence is seen in Russia as a growing problem by many human rights groups.
According to figures from the Moscow Bureau of Human Rights, there were 25 fatal racial attacks in Russia in 2005.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/4886298.stm
Published: 2006/04/07 09:13:24 GMT
© BBC MMVI
POTSDAM, Germany, April 18 (UPI) -- A German man of African origin is fighting for his life after being brutally beaten up by Neo-Nazis.
Although the police have no official leads on the horrific Easter morning attack in Potsdam, in the state of Brandenburg, near Berlin, observers expect the perpetrators to have come from the city's Neo-Nazi scene.
The victim, a 37-year-old engineer of Ethiopian descent, is in intensive care after he was kicked in the head by at least two people. Doctors have placed him in an artificial coma to reduce the swelling on his brain. His condition is being described as critical, according to Deutsche Welle Online.
The most important clue is a telephone call the victim made to his German wife's answering machine, where the attackers can be heard shouting 'dirty nigger' while the victim pleads with them to stop.
Potsdam officials said the incident is isolated and not part of a trend of growing racism in the region.
Brandenburg's Interior Minister Joerg Schoenbohm said there would be strong penalties for the attempted murder.
"In this country we do not tolerate that extremists chase, beat up or even murder people because of their skin color, religion or political positions," he said at a news conference Monday.
© Copyright 2006 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved
STUDENT MURDER IN RUSSIA 'RACIST'
A Senegalese student has been killed by unidentified gunmen in the Russian city of St Petersburg, in what police believe is a racially-motivated attack.
Lamzar Samba was shot as he and his friends left a night club in the centre of Russia's second-largest city.
It is the latest in a wave of recent attacks in the city on foreigners and members of ethnic minorities.
A nine-year-old girl of mixed Russian and Malian parentage was seriously injured in a stabbing in March.
Last week, a teenager was acquitted of stabbing a nine-year-old Tajik girl to death in 2004.
Swastika sign
The attack on a group of African students took place early on Friday on the 5th Krasnoarmeyskaya Street, police in St Petersburg said.
They said the murder was racially-motivated, after finding a shotgun with a swastika sign on it near the scene of the attack.
Desire Defait, head of St Petersburg's African Unity organisation, said the assailants opened fire on the group of about six after they left the club.
"As a result, one of them fell and it turned out he (Lamzar Samba) was dead. The attacker shot from behind and no-one saw how many there were," Mr Defait told the AFP news agency.
Lamzar Samba had been studying in St Petersburg's telecommunications institute.
The city has recently seen an increase in violent attacks on foreigners and members of ethnic minorities.
On 25 March, the nine-year-old girl of Russian and Malian parentage was seriously injured in a stabbing attack, which prosecutors believe was racially-motivated.
Last December, a Cameroonian student was stabbed to death and a Kenyan national was wounded in attacks across St Petersburg.
Racist violence is seen in Russia as a growing problem by many human rights groups.
According to figures from the Moscow Bureau of Human Rights, there were 25 fatal racial attacks in Russia in 2005.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/4886298.stm
Published: 2006/04/07 09:13:24 GMT
© BBC MMVI
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