Left-Extremist Endeavours

Completed homicide
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In 1999, for the first time after three years, a completed act of
homicide motivated by right-wing extremism motives was recorded
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On 29 September, a Mozambican died of the sequels of the serious
injuries inflicted upon him six weeks earlier by a 31-year old
man. On 15 August, in front of a pub in Kolbermoor near Rosenheim
(Bavaria), the German attacker had seriously injured the
victim by punching and kicking him in the course of a brawl in
which other persons were involved as well. During his interrogation
by the police, the German did not disguise his anti-foreigner
hostility. A warrant was issued for his arrest.
The incident of 13 February in Guben/Brandenburg in which an Algerian national died of the
injuries he had suffered when fleeing from a group of skinheads chasing him, is classified by the
criminal prosecution authorities as a violation of the public peace. The perpetrators are standing
trial; the sentence is still pending.
There was another offence which the criminal prosecution authorities did not classify as voluntary
homicide: On 9 August, two right-extremist skinheads in Eschede/Lower Saxony forcefully
broke into the home of a 44-year old German who previously had made critical comments regarding
the xenophobia of one of the accused persons. The offenders, who were under the influence
of alcohol, hit the man whom they had knocked to the ground, kicked him with paratrooper
boots and stabbed him with bits of broken glass, causing him serious injuries, inter alia
to his head, of which the victim died the following day. On 25 January 2000, the Juvenile Division
of the Lüneburg Landgericht [Regional Court] sentenced the two defendants to five years'
youth custody each, for grievous bodily injury with fatal outcome.
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