Violence update 20.7.93

[Debora Weber-Wulff]

[It's "Sommerloch" time, they sell very thin newspapers anymore...]

Prenzlau (Brandenburg): Two cars filled with Skins drove up to an
asylum shelter here. The youth got out, screamed "Heil Hitler" and
"Auslaender raus", fired "Schreckschusspistolen" (air guns?), and
then drove off.

Frankfurt/Main: A fire in a large house in which many Germans and
foreigners lived resulted in 30 people being admitted to the
hospital with smoke inhalation. However, the police is not sure
that racist motives are a factor.

The German high court has refused the case of an asylum seeker from
Ghana, who requested to stay in Germany until his case for asylum
has been decided. Ghana is considered to be a "secure country". The
man is one of the many persons being detained at a special compound
constructed at the Frankfurt airport for holding detainees since the
new asylum law took effect July 1. There had been a hunger strike
conducted by the detainees, but it had no effect, and the strike was
called off on the advice of medical and social personell taking
care of the asylum seekers.

Justice Senator Jutta Limbach (Berlin) has suggested that foreigners
be permitted to become justices and the like. She notes that the
interior minister occasionally makes exceptions to the rule to let
some foreigners [like me] into the Beamtentum. Somebody complained
that it was impossible for a "fine German citizen" to have to
plead for justice in front of a foreigner. Ms. Limbach noted that
that was exactly Goebbels reason for keeping women out of such
positions.

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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