Violence update 23.7.93

[Debora Weber-Wulff]

Berlin-Weissensee : A grenade was thrown into the barracks in which
more than 200 refugees from Bosnia are living. No one was injured, but
there was a good bit of damage to windows, etc.

East Berlin : A public hearing in a posh East German neighborhood
(villas and boats, was posh before the wall went down, too) about the
plans to open a refugee camp here in September was disbanded shortly
after it began. The social services politician was so shocked at the
anti-foreigner sentiment that was roundly applauded by most of
the 300-odd attendees that she packed up and left. One of the more
printable epithets stated that refugees are all "Schweine und
potentielle Kriminelle", pigs and potential criminals. The politician
stated to the "Tagespiegel" that she was so shocked, as these were all
affluent people, not out-of-work thugs.

Bavaria? I caught a snippet on the 9 o'clock news last night about a
fire in a Bavarian refugee home in which some persons were injured, but
it was not repeated at 10 o'clock, and was not in the paper this
morning.

Good news! Schleswig-Holstein has announced plans to permit foreigners
to join the police force.

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Debora Weber-Wulff, Professorin fuer Softwaretechnik und
snail: Technische Fachhochschule Berlin, FB Informatik,
Luxemburgerstr. 10, 13353 Berlin, Germany
email: d...@informatik.tfh-berlin.d400.de