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Germany: racist attacks (1)

01 May 1994

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On 8 March 1994, the Federal Minister of Interior issued new figures on xenophobic attacks. According to these statistics, 1,609 criminal acts of xenophobic nature were registered in 1993, 37 percent less than in 1992 (2,544). This includes 248 arson attacks on accommodation centres and homes of foreigners and asylum-seekers (596 in 1992) and 3 bomb attacks (12 in 1992). A total of 6 foreigners were killed during these attacks (7 in 1993) and 906 were injured (946 in 1992). The Federal Minister of Interior said the decrease in the number of racist attacks is encouraging, but the registered number of attacks is "still alarming." According to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (FOPC) there are 41,400 right-wing extremists in 77 organizations throughout Germany, with a militant core of 4,400 members (skin-heads). The German Government recently announced harsher sentences for racially motivated criminal acts as well as the use of Nazi-like symbols.

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