Anti-refugee riots in Bautzen

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Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 39.4 ″  N , 13 ° 51 ′ 29.6 ″  E

Anti-refugee riots in Bautzen (Germany)
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Location of the city of Bautzen in the Free State of Saxony , Germany

In Bautzen there have been campaigns against asylum seekers and their accommodation since 2014 . The national media mainly reported on the anti-refugee riots in 2016.

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According to the Saxon Office for the Protection of the Constitution , the district of Bautzen is a focus of right-wing extremist activities in Saxony. He assumes around 50 right-wing extremists in the city of Bautzen and 250 to 300 in the region. These are mostly small groups that are networked with one another primarily via social media , radicalizing one another and quickly mobilizing one another. Their share per 100,000 inhabitants is significantly higher than in other districts of Saxony . Demonstrations against “foreign infiltration” take place frequently, and right-wing extremist crimes have increased steadily since 2013. When the number of refugees increased in the summer of 2015 and the accommodation in the Bautzen district became scarce, the NPD organized "No-to-home initiatives" wherever accommodation was planned for refugees, including in Döberkitz , a district of Bautzen, where unaccompanied minor refugees were supposed to move into a former children's home.

In addition to the "apparently prevailing hegemony claim of right-wing groups over the city", according to the social scientist Sebastian Kurtenbach, statements by politicians suggest that Bautzen "has no problem awareness of xenophobia, which has allowed everyday racism to establish itself".

The national media mainly reported on the fire in the planned asylum seeker accommodation "Husarenhof" and the disputes on the Kornmarkt in September 2016.

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Arson attack in February 2016

On the night of February 21, 2016, strangers set fire to the former “Husarenhof” hotel, which was intended to be used as accommodation for asylum seekers for 300 people. The roof structure burned out. When the fire alarm was received by the fire brigade, around 30 people had already gathered on the square in front of the accommodation, according to police. Some onlookers expressed "undisguised joy".

The background to the fire remained unexplained, so that a political motive is not certain. The General Public Prosecutor's Office in Dresden closed its investigations against three accused "due to insufficient suspicion", but not the general investigation.

Violence between right-wing extremists and refugees on Kornmarkt in September 2016

On September 9th there was a riot on the Kornmarkt during a German national rally and the counter-demonstration of the Bautzen alliance remains colorful . Even before that, there had been repeated clashes and assault crimes between underage asylum seekers and Germans on the Kornmarkt. On September 13th, a Bautzner was attacked by an asylum seeker with a broken bottle and seriously injured. On the night of September 15, around 80 violent men and women from the right-wing spectrum and a group of around 15 to 20 young asylum seekers clashed. There were verbal and physical attacks; Bottles were thrown. Alcohol is said to have been involved on both sides. The right chanted racist slogans and “ We are the people ”. The local police chief said the violent confrontation had originated from “ unaccompanied minor asylum seekers ” who were the first to throw bottles and stones at the right. When the police wanted to separate the two camps and asked all those present to leave the area, the asylum seekers threw bottles and wooden slats at them, among other things. Eyewitnesses confirmed that some young asylum seekers used force against around ten police officers when they asked the asylum seekers to leave the square. After the escalation, the police requested reinforcements from around 100 police officers and used pepper spray and batons. The right-wing people gathered at the square then used the tumult to rush past the police towards the asylum seekers and chase them over the Lauengraben and Friedensbrücke to their accommodation. When an 18-year-old asylum seeker who had been cut was about to be picked up by an ambulance, right-wing extremists threw stones at him.

NPD campaigns and arson attack on a refugee shelter in December 2016

The former "Spreehotel" in Bautzen has served as accommodation for asylum seekers and an integration center since 2014. The state parliament member of the NPD Saxony , Jürgen Gansel, announced in a letter to the operator of the Spreehotel “for the NPD” in March 2014, “to exhaust all peaceful and legal forms of protest from the distribution of leaflets to vigils and demonstrations” in order to “break the dam to prevent asylum seekers accommodation in a four-star hotel ”. The NPD organized marches and other campaigns. At one of their demonstrations in November 2014, Bautzen NPD city councilor Daniela Stamm rushed against the accommodation. On December 13, 2016, five Molotov cocktails were thrown onto the premises of the Spreehotel refugee accommodation . Three 19 to 23-year-old men were then arrested in late December and taken into custody. The public prosecutor's office in Görlitz is investigating.

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  2. ↑ Stephanie Lahrtz: Bautzen - a stage for right-wing extremists , NZZ, August 28, 2017
  3. ↑ Arndt Gintzel: The world outside the stone house. How hatred against the Sorbian minority and violence against refugees arose in Bautzen , in: Heike Kleffner , Matthias Meisner (ed.): Unter Sachsen. Between anger and welcome, Ch.Christof Links Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86153-937-7 , p. 204
  4. ^ Sebastian Kurtenbach: Exclusion of refugees. An empirical study using the example of Bautzen . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2018, ISBN 978-3-658-21798-3 , p. 166.
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  8. ^ Matthias Meisner: The arson attack on the refugee home in Bautzen remains unsolved , Der Tagesspiegel, March 9, 2017
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  10. ↑ Bautzen's Kornmarkt as a stage for violence and riots , Lausitzer Rundschau, September 16, 2016
  11. ↑ "The situation on the grain market is unbearable" , Sächsische Zeitung, September 14, 2016
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  19. ^ Three men in custody after an arson attack on the Bautzen refugee home , Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 28, 2016