Violence against politicians has been dominating the headlines, but instances of everyday racism and antisemitic attacks are causing German victim advice centres to sound the alarm. Euronews travelled to Thuringia, a right-wing hotspot, to speak with a victim of neo-Nazi violence. #EuropeNews

Violence against politicians has been dominating the headlines, but instances of everyday racism and antisemitic attacks are causing German victim advice centres to sound the alarm. Euronews travelled to Thuringia, a right-wing hotspot, to speak with a victim of neo-Nazi violence.

Germany has witnessed a surge in far-right, racist, and antisemitic violence, reaching unprecedented levels in over a decade.

Mayar, a 20-year-old nurse who fled Syria during the war and has lived in Germany for nearly nine years, feels a strong sense of German identity, having grown up there. He recounted the moment of the attack in vivid detail.

“He (perpetrator) insulted me and then hit me. He choked me and pushed me against the train, and then he was strangling me with his thumbs pressed into my throat.”

  • @barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
    12•7 months ago

    According to the German newspaper TAZ, judges in the Thuringia district of Gera share close ties with AfD politicians, both locally and nationally, quoting statistics of judges deciding in favour of asylum seekers in single-digit percentages. The judges have denied having any right-wing-leaning biases.

    It is, alas, basically impossible to nail judges for perversion of justice based on statistics because you have to prove at least reckless intent. Add to that judicial independence and the possibility to do anything are very limited, I think at most stuff like re-distributing judges among districts to even out statistics would be constitutionally viable. Giving a general directive to state attorneys to appeal sentences which seem too harsh or lenient is also an idea, and push come to shove those appeals could be done by a special task force.