“Such criminal acts are disgusting and are contrary to everything this city represents,” reads the joint statement of some of the representatives of the Magdeburg city council in reaction to the sudden increase in criminal acts against foreigners in recent days.
As reported by the public service MDR, this year alone, the police recorded three crimes with a racist background.
As this media continues, citing police sources, since the attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg on December 20, when a Saudi man killed five and injured around 200 people with a car, attacks on people of foreign origin have been recorded in Magdeburg every day.
These are mostly insults with a racist background, but also physical attacks.
Organizations for the protection of human rights blame the racist rhetoric of some parties, such as the Alternative for Germany (AfD), for the increase in violence against foreigners, which are trying to use the attack in Magdeburg for election purposes ahead of the upcoming early parliamentary elections.
(Vijesti.ba / HINA)
