List of anti-refugee attacks in Germany from 1990 to 2013

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The list of anti-refugee attacks in Germany from 1990 to 2013 records attacks and attacks on refugees and refugee accommodation in Germany for which xenophobic and racist motives are proven or likely. The list is not yet complete. Particularly serious attacks with injured, seriously injured or dead people are highlighted in red.

Unless otherwise stated, the information follows the chronicles of courage against right-wing violence , Pro Asyl and Amadeu Antonio Foundation . Historical background, counter-initiatives, literature see under Attacks hostile to refugees in the Federal Republic of Germany ; further annual lists see below.

1990

• February: In Stuttgart , opponents of emigrants burned a transition home to the ground
• At the beginning of February: in Cologne-Godorf , arsonists set fire to a newly built people's home twice in a row

1991

place	federal country	date	Attack target	Injured	description
Schwerin	MV	March 11	Refugee, inhabited accommodation	2 injured	Right-wing extremists seriously injure a Romanian refugee with a knife, beat a Syrian and devastate the grounds of an asylum seekers' home.
Arnstadt	TH	May	inhabited accommodation		"A Nepalese asylum seeker can only save himself from skinheads by fleeing to the foreigners' home. The persecutors only give up when the police show up."
Gelbensande	MV	Jun 26	inhabited accommodation		Right-wing extremists attack an asylum seeker accommodation and fire off shots.
Weitendorf	MV	Jul 1	inhabited accommodation		Two people break into the asylum seekers' home and shoot.
Wismar	MV	Jul 12	inhabited accommodation	6 injured	Young people raid an accommodation for asylum seekers, six residents are injured.
Trollenhagen	MV	Jul 12	inhabited accommodation	1 injured	20 hooded people attack the asylum seekers' home with baseball bats, one woman is beaten up.
Tambach-Dietharz	TH	2nd Aug	inhabited accommodation	1 injured person	Two Romanians are attacked in a refugee home. One of the attacked had to be admitted to a hospital with skull injuries (look to the right, no. 21, 7.10.91 - chronology).
Ueckermünde	MV	10 Aug	inhabited accommodation		40 hooded local and Berlin skinheads attack the asylum seekers' home and shoot with gas pistols. The house is uninhabitable after the attack.
Tambach-Dietharz	TH	30. + 31. Aug	Refugees		Asylum seekers are attacked, mistreated and persecuted (look to the right, No. 22, 10/21/91 - chronology).
Hoyerswerda	SN	17 Sep	inhabited accommodation		Various racist attacks began on September 17th. After stones were thrown and Molotov cocktails were attacked on a contract workers' hostel and refugee home, the residents were evacuated. As a result, there were imitation acts in other German cities. → Main article : Riots in Hoyerswerda
Schwerin	MV	28 Sep	inhabited accommodation		Attack on a home for asylum seekers with two incendiary devices, resulting in high property damage.
Stralsund	MV	29 Sep	inhabited accommodation		Attack by 15–20 rioters on an asylum seekers home with rocks.
Rostock-Schmarl	MV	Oct. 1	inhabited accommodation		50 young people attacked a home for asylum seekers.
Rostock- Schmarl	MV	Oct. 3	inhabited accommodation		150 young people attacked a home for asylum seekers.
Hünxe	NW	Oct. 3	inhabited accommodation	2 seriously injured	In the night of October 2nd to 3rd, three young people threw an incendiary device on the asylum seekers' home in Hünxe. Two girls, then six and eight years old, were seriously injured, the younger one suffered life-threatening burns. The perpetrators were sentenced by the Duisburg Regional Court to prison terms of between three and a half and five years for serious arson and bodily harm . One of the perpetrators took his own life after he was released from prison.
Mountains on Rügen	MV	Oct. 3	inhabited accommodation	2 injured	Two asylum seekers were injured in an arson attack.
Sassnitz	MV	4th Oct	inhabited accommodation		People attacked an asylum seeker accommodation with stones.
Greifswald	MV	4th Oct	inhabited accommodation		Arson attack on a home for asylum seekers.
Guestrow	MV	4th Oct	inhabited accommodation		Right-wing extremists attacked a home for asylum seekers.
Zwickau	SN	4th Oct	inhabited accommodation	7 injured	Approx. 100 rioters storm a refugee home and burn it down. 7 people were injured, some seriously, and 11 were arrested. (look to the right, no.22, 10/21/91, chronology)
Schwerin	MV	Oct. 5	inhabited accommodation		Attack on an asylum seekers home with stones.
Pasewalk	MV	Oct 17	inhabited accommodation		Arson attack on a home for asylum seekers.
Parchim	MV	Oct 18	inhabited accommodation		Assault and arson attack on accommodation for asylum seekers.
Pasewalk	MV	Oct. 20	inhabited accommodation		Arson attack on a home for asylum seekers.
Parchim	MV	Oct. 20	inhabited accommodation		Assault and arson attack on accommodation for asylum seekers.
Greifswald	MV	Nov 3	inhabited accommodation	35 injured	After a soccer game, more than 200 BFC Dynamo hooligans attacked a home for asylum seekers, 35 people were injured, some seriously, and the home was devastated.
Greifswald	MV	Nov 7	inhabited accommodation		Arson attack on accommodation for asylum seekers.
Greifswald	MV	Nov 9	inhabited accommodation		Arson attack on accommodation for asylum seekers.
Greifswald	MV	Nov. 24	inhabited accommodation		Arson attack on accommodation for asylum seekers.
Sassnitz	MV	Nov 16	inhabited accommodation		30 young people attacked a home for asylum seekers.
Greifswald	MV	6 Dec	inhabited accommodation		Arson attack on accommodation for asylum seekers.
Sömmerda	TH	24.-26. Dec	inhabited accommodation		A home for asylum seekers is attacked several times by neo-fascists, windows are smashed (FR, December 27, 1991)

1992

Violence against refugees and refugee shelters 1992 (incomplete)

place	federal country	date	Attack target	Dead / injured	description
Sömmerda	TH	Jan. 5	inhabited accommodation		Unknown perpetrators threw three tear gas grenades into the courtyard of the asylum seekers' collective accommodation. The day before, right-wing extremist slogans had been sprayed on the walls of public buildings in the city.
Jena , Eisenach and Erfurt	TH	18./19. Jan.	Refugees	5 injured	"A wave of violence against foreigners and asylum seekers overshadowed the commemorative events in Thuringia for the 50th anniversary of the so-called Wannsee Conference. At least five foreigners were injured. Six perpetrators, mostly from the right-wing scene, were arrested. [...] There were further riots it in Jena, Eisenach and Erfurt. "
Lampertheim	HE	Jan. 31	inhabited accommodation	3 dead	A family of three from Sri Lanka dies in their burning refugee shelter. In autumn 1992 three young people were arrested for confessing to the arson attack.
Hall (Western Pomerania)	MV	March 14	inhabited accommodation	1 dead	An 18-year-old Romanian is killed in an attack by around 40 young people on a home for asylum seekers.
cottbus	BB	March 21	inhabited accommodation		Right-wing extremists attack a home for asylum seekers with alarm pistols and stones and smash the windows and doors of the accommodation.
Hörstel	NW	Apr 4	inhabited accommodation	1 dead	A German living in the home was killed in an arson attack on a home for asylum seekers.
Treuenbrietzen	BB	Apr 12	inhabited accommodation		15 right-wing extremists attacked an asylum seeker accommodation. They smash windows, blinds and the front door.
Guestrow	MV	May 24th	inhabited accommodation	2 injured	100 young people attack a home for asylum seekers, two people are injured.
Bahlen	MV	May 24th	inhabited accommodation		Assault on a home for asylum seekers. 140 asylum seekers flee to Lauenburg on August 2nd, but are sent back.
Mannheim	BW	28th of May	inhabited accommodation, refugees, riots	20 injured	After a festival on Ascension Day and on the following days, up to 400 residents tried to attack a refugee home in the Schönau district . The cause was the spread of an already refuted rumor. The deployed police and a second, specially erected fence prevented physical attacks, but for one to one and a half weeks there were verbal insults, death threats, stone and bottle throwing that broke window panes and the mostly traumatized civil war refugees could not leave their homes . While the police only drove the attacking people away on the first evening and then allowed them to do their thing, they attacked a solidarity demonstration about a week after the Ascension of 400 people, injuring 20 people, for example. Sometimes difficult and took 140 people into custody and denied treatment to the injured. Lord Mayor Gerhard Widder expressed understanding for the concerns of the attackers and the Mannheim municipal council had previously called for the abolition of the basic right to asylum .
Liebertwolkwitz	SN		inhabited accommodation		Arson attack on a home for asylum seekers.
Elgersburg	TH		inhabited accommodation		Assault with a blank gun on an asylum seekers' home.
Rostock-Lichtenhagen	MV	22 Aug	Riots, inhabited accommodation		Between August 22 and 26, 1992, there were racially motivated attacks on the central reception center for asylum seekers and a dormitory for former Vietnamese contract workers in the so-called "Sunflower House". As a result, there were almost 40 imitation offenses by mid-September 1992. → Main article : Riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen
Wismar	MV	27 Aug	Riots, inhabited accommodation		Assault on a home for asylum seekers with Molotov cocktails.
cottbus	BB	Aug ..	Riots, inhabited accommodation		At the end of August, up to 200 neo-Nazis armed with Molotov cocktails, knives and stones attacked an asylum seekers' home in the Sachsendorf district in three nights. Cars went up in flames, shop windows broke, homes were damaged and firefighters were threatened. Only the intervention of 300 police officers prevented anything worse. Frank Hübner , who has been on the city council for the NPD since 2008, was named as the “spiritual leader” .
Rostock-Hinrichshagen	MV	28 Aug	inhabited accommodation		Attack on the asylum seekers home.
Sömmerda and Eisenach	TH	29 Aug			"On Saturday night, police in Sömmerda and Eisenach (both Thuringia) prevent the attack by neo-Nazis armed with fence slats and Molotov cocktails on asylum seekers' homes. Some of the incendiary devices explode."
Neubrandenburg	MV	30 Aug	inhabited accommodation		Attack on a home for asylum seekers.
Luebz	MV	30 Aug	inhabited accommodation		Attack on a home for asylum seekers.
Markersdorf ( Gera district )	TH	Sep 2	inhabited accommodation		"Arson attack on a home for asylum seekers in Markersdorf / Gera district."
Erfurt	TH	3rd Sep	inhabited accommodation		"In Erfurt, a dormitory inhabited by Vietnamese is attacked with stones and flares."
Ringenberg	NW	5th Sep	inhabited accommodation, refugees	2 injured	"In Ringenberg near Wesel, two foreigners are injured in an attack by around two dozen skinheads on an asylum seeker accommodation."
Trassenheide	MV	5th Sep	inhabited accommodation		40 young people attacked a refugee home.
Quedlinburg	ST	6 Sep	Riots, inhabited accommodation		During the riots in Quedlinburg , which lasted several days in 1992 , up to 500 violent people besieged the asylum seekers' home on Oeringer Strasse, threw stones and Molotov cocktails, and onlookers applauded. A vigil made up of citizens and local politicians who stood in front of the home to protect them was attacked, as were the police and paramedics. After the attacks continued the following weekend, the then Interior Minister of Saxony-Anhalt, Hartmut Perschau , ordered the accommodation to be closed.
Pritzier	MV	6 Sep	uninhabited accommodation		30 young people attack a refugee shelter with fireworks and Molotov cocktails. The residents had previously been evacuated.
Anklam	MV	8 Sep	inhabited accommodation		Arson attack on a home for asylum seekers.
Boizenburg	MV	8 Sep	inhabited accommodation		Arson attack on a home for asylum seekers.
Goods (Müritz)	MV	8 Sep	inhabited accommodation		Attack on a home for asylum seekers.
Eisenach district	TH	13 Sep	inhabited accommodation		"Arson attack on asylum seekers accommodation in the Eisenach / Thuringia district."
Mulhouse	TH	13 Sep	Refugee		"In Mühlhausen / Thuringia, a Polish asylum seeker is attacked and robbed in his room."
Wismar	MV	Sep 15	Riots, inhabited accommodation		Between September 15 and 20, there were several attacks on a home for asylum seekers with incendiary devices, iron bars and stones, which were applauded by local residents. A total of 186 young people were temporarily arrested during the five days.
Barley	TH	16 Sep	inhabited accommodation		"In Gerstungen / Thuringia a stranger shoots the asylum seekers home."
Barley	TH	17 Sep	inhabited accommodation		"In Gerstungen near Eisenach, a stranger fired two shots in the courtyard of the asylum seekers' home, apparently in the air."
Guestrow	MV	Sep 18	inhabited accommodation		There were attacks on a shelter on September 18 and 19.
Kröpelin	MV	Sep 18	inhabited accommodation		For several days, up to 40 young people attacked an asylum seekers' home, some with Molotov cocktails.
Ueckermünde	MV	Sep 18	inhabited accommodation		Attack on a home for asylum seekers.
Kriebitzsch	TH	Oct. 20	private residence		"In Kriebitzsch (Altenburg district), an incendiary device was thrown from a passing car at the home of the head of a refugee hostel."
Bergern	TH	Oct. 22	inhabited accommodation		"In Bergern near Weimar, three incendiary bottles are thrown at a residence for foreigners."
Apolda	TH	Oct. 24	Refugees		"In Apolda, 50 young people are besieging a youth club and chanting racist slogans in front of the home for asylum seekers."
Oberhof	TH	Oct 29	discotheque		A group of right-wing extremist skinheads attacked two American athletes.
Dolgenbrodt	BB	Nov 1	uninhabited accommodation		On the night of November 1st, a newly built asylum seekers' home burned down completely. The next day, 86 asylum seekers should have moved in there. In 1993, a 19-year-old skinhead was arrested as a suspect and sentenced to two years suspended sentence in 1996 as an arsonist. Subsequent investigations revealed that several local residents had donated money to hire radical right-wing arsonists.

1993

Attacks on refugees and refugee shelters in 1993 (incomplete)

place	federal country	date	Attack target	Injured / dead	description
Hamburg-Altona	HH	Jan. 1	accommodation	4 injured	Arson attack
Malchow	MV	Jan. 3	accommodation		Arson attack. The fire that was caused by a fire bottle could be extinguished early.
Berlin-Hohenschönhausen	BE	Jan. 3	Refugee Manuel T.	Seriously injured	In front of a refugee home in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen, 29-year-old Manuel T., a refugee from Mozambique, was attacked and mistreated by six Germans with baseball bats. The man has to be hospitalized with numerous injuries.
Neustadt	BY	Jan. 5	inhabited accommodation		A refugee accommodation was attacked by German youths. They broke open the doors and shouted fascist slogans. The threatened refugees managed to beat the attackers to flight with clubs.
Borken (Hesse)	HE	Jan. 7	inhabited accommodation		At least five German men broke into the refugee home and beat four residents and a supervisor.
Klosterfelde	BB	Jan. 9	inhabited accommodation		Two men threw self-made incendiary devices at the refugee home. Nobody was hurt.
Mühlberg / Elbe	BB	Jan. 10	inhabited accommodation		Young Germans attacked a refugee home and destroyed the window panes and the front door.
Aschaffenburg	BY	Jan. 11	inhabited accommodation		Arson attack. The residents of the refugee accommodation were able to put out the fire.
Garbsen	NI	Jan. 16	inhabited accommodation		Arson attack by six strangers on a refugee home.
Speyer	RP	Jan. 17	inhabited accommodation		An arson attack was carried out on a residential container inhabited by refugees.
Zielitz	ST	Jan. 21	inhabited accommodation		Arson attack. The residents of the refugee hostel were able to catch one of the perpetrators who had thrown a bottle on fire.
Immenhausen	HE	Jan. 24	inhabited accommodation		Arson attack. Three Moroccans accidentally found a five-liter canister with a flammable liquid and an already burning fuse in front of the entrance to the refugee accommodation. They managed to put out the fire.
Speyer	RP	Jan. 25	inhabited accommodation		Arson attack on a refugee home.
Duisburg-Hamborn	NW	Jan. 26	inhabited accommodation	5 injured	Five people were injured in an arson attack on a refugee shelter.
Drüsewitz	MV	Feb 3	inhabited accommodation		Ten Germans attacked a refugee home with stones and shouted racist slogans.
Wrangelsburg	MV	Feb 11	inhabited accommodation		Arson attack. The residents of the refugee home were able to put out the fire.
Swords	NW	Feb 11	inhabited accommodation		Arson in a refugee shelter. None of the 50 residents were injured.
Taunusstein Rooster	HE	Feb 25	inhabited accommodation		Two men tried to set the refugee home on fire. The residents were able to put out the fire.
Kirchheim (Hesse)	HE	Feb 27	inhabited accommodation		The refugee home was shot at from a paint marker gun.
Halle (Saale)	ST	Feb 27	inhabited accommodation		Right-wing youths chanted racist slogans in front of the refugee home and threw stones at the building. The arrest of twelve people prevented an attack on the house.
Munich	BY	March 4	inhabited accommodation		In the prayer room of the refugee home in the Obersendling district, arsonists poured gasoline and set it on fire. The 453 refugees from 36 nations who are housed in the home were unharmed.
Friedrichsdorf	HE	March 9	inhabited accommodation	1 injured person	Three neo-Nazis attacked the refugee accommodation in Pettenweiler Holzweg between Friedrichsdorf and Köppern and fired shots from a gas pistol. Six Kurdish residents finally managed to put the attackers to flight. A Kurd was hit by a bullet.
Mölln	SH	March 19	inhabited accommodation		Arson attack. The perpetrators threw Molotov cocktails at the refugee accommodation, which consists of ten residential containers and which mainly houses Romanian refugees. There were no injuries.
Sarstedt	NI	March 19	inhabited accommodation		Bomb attack on a refugee home. Nobody was hurt.
Erzhausen	HE	26 March	inhabited accommodation		Arson attack on the refugee accommodation. Nobody got hurt.
Grim	MV	Apr 3	inhabited accommodation		Arson attack on a refugee hostel in the Grimmen district.
Bretvish	MV	Apr 3	inhabited accommodation		Perpetrators threw fire bottles at a refugee home. The security service was able to put out the fire.
Lotte	NW	Apr 12	inhabited accommodation		A refugee home was set on fire with seven Molotov cocktails.
Thannhausen	BY	Apr 14	inhabited accommodation		Arson attack on a refugee shelter. A swastika was sprayed on the outer wall below the source of the fire. Property damage of DM 30,000 resulted; nobody got hurt.
Munich	BY	Apr 17	inhabited accommodation	11 injured	Arson in a refugee home in the Obersendling district . Three men who jumped out of windows in panic had to be hospitalized with broken bones, and eight others with smoke inhalation
Kirkel - Limbach	SL	Apr 17	inhabited accommodation		Arson attack on a refugee shelter. The perpetrators threw incendiary devices into the house inhabited by five refugees from Sri Lanka. Nobody was hurt.
Bramsche	NI	Apr 22	inhabited accommodation		Arson attack on a refugee home. Nobody got hurt.

May

• Bremen , May 9, 1993: Arson attack on a bunker in which refugees were housed
• Weißwasser (Saxony), May 21, 1993: After a dispute between 20 allotment gardeners and around 60 asylum seekers, a Molotov cocktail flew onto the site of the container village where the refugees were housed at eleven o'clock in the evening
• Sigmaringen - Laiz (Baden-Württemberg), May 25, 1993: Three Germans between the ages of 16 and 18 fired three shots from a small-bore rifle at a refugee home. A refugee from the former Yugoslavia was injured
• Fuldatal - Ihringshausen (Hessen), May 28, 1993: A 15-year-old German shot at a newly occupied refugee home. nobody got hurt
• Isernhagen (Lower Saxony), May 29, 1993: Unknown people threw two windows in a refugee accommodation
• Greifswald (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), May 29, 1993: The windows of a refugee accommodation were broken in by strangers
• Rösrath (North Rhine-Westphalia), May 30, 1993: Arson attack on a refugee accommodation. The residents were able to put out the fire

June

• Groß Brütz (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), June 2, 1993: About 20 young people attacked a refugee home with stones. They were beaten to flight by the refugees with sticks
• Singen (Baden-Württemberg), June 10, 1993: Arson attack on a refugee accommodation. The nine residents were able to save themselves
• Modautal - Ernsthofen (Hessen), June 11, 1993: Arson attack on a half-timbered house. The 24 refugees housed there were unharmed because the fire was discovered and extinguished in its early stages
• Marsberg (North Rhine-Westphalia), June 16, 1993: Two men hurled a bottle of fire into the backyard of the refugee accommodation. The residents discovered the fire early on so that no one was harmed
• Raisdorf (Schleswig-Holstein), June 19, 1993: Arson attack on a refugee home. Two people were injured
• Parchim (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), June 26, 1993: Arson attack on a refugee home. The incendiary device ricocheted off below a window and fell to the floor, so that no damage was caused

July

• Goettingen (Lower Saxony), July 4th 1993: Arson attack on a refugee accommodation. Around 90 refugees from the former Yugoslavia sleeping in a gym had to be evacuated
• Bondorf (Baden-Württemberg), July 12, 1993: A refugee home burned down. The night before, two men had fired nine shots from a car at the home
• Prenzlau (Brandenburg), July 18, 1993: In front of the refugee home, several Germans chanted National Socialist slogans and fired shots from a blank firing pistol at the house
• Berlin-Weißensee , July 21, 1993: A hand grenade attack was carried out on a home for Bosnian war refugees. None of the 280 residents were injured

August

• Hardegsen (Lower Saxony), August 8, 1993: Arson attack on a house inhabited by refugees
• Bad Camberg (Hessen), August 9, 1993: Arson attack on a refugee accommodation
• Eschborn (Hessen), August 13, 1993: Arson in a refugee home. The fire was discovered and extinguished at the beginning

September

• Cham (Bavaria), September 28, 1993: arson attack. Four men broke a kitchen window with a fire bottle. The fire was quickly extinguished so that no one of the 22 residents was injured

October

• Hechingen (Baden-Württemberg), October 6, 1993: In front of a refugee home, shots were fired and a bottle of fire ignited
• Körle (Hessen), October 24, 1993: arson attack. One resident was able to extinguish the fire quickly
• Potsdam (Brandenburg), October 30, 1993: arson attack. The perpetrators cut open the protective fence, entered the building and tried to throw a bottle of fire through a window. Since gauze was stretched in front of the window, the incendiary device did not fly into the room occupied by a Yugoslav refugee family of nine

November

• Küssaberg - Rheinheim (Baden-Württemberg), November 7, 1993: A residential container complex for Kurdish refugees burned out completely. The 14 residents were able to escape into the open. The fire was caused by an incendiary device that was thrown into the corridor of the container. The home had been attacked with stones months earlier, injuring two refugees
• Friedersdorf (Saxony-Anhalt), November 18, 1993: An arson attack completely burned down a refugee barracks. People were not injured
• Biedenkopf (Hessen), November 25, 1993: arson attack. The fire was discovered and extinguished before any major damage could be done

December

• Griesheim (Hessen), December 6, 1993: Six or seven dark-clad perpetrators threw bottles into five windows of a refugee home
• Griesheim (Hessen), December 20, 1993: arson attack. The triggering of the alarm system led to the perpetrators fleeing. The fire could be extinguished
• Hohenstein - Steckenroth (Hessen), December 23, 1993: A bomb attack on a refugee home was prevented at the last minute. A car parked between the residential containers was on fire. When the refugees had put out the fire, they found a pipe bomb in the back seat of the car
• Kaltenkirchen (Schleswig-Holstein), December 25, 1993: An unnamed Turk died of injuries after an arson attack on the refugee home

1996

The house at Hafenstrasse 52 in Lübeck after the 1996 arson attack

place	federal country	date	Attack target	Injured	description
Lübeck	SH	Jan. 18	inhabited accommodation	10 dead, 55 injured	On the night of January 18, 1996, an attack was carried out on a house for asylum seekers in Hafenstrasse, in which ten people were killed and 55 others were injured. Nobody was convicted of the arson. → Main article : Lübeck arson attack
Stuhr	NI	March 28	inhabited accommodation	3 injured people	Unknown people set fire in an asylum shelter.
eat	NW	Apr 9		1 person	A 16-year-old student "in a conspicuous army camouflage suit" stabs a 53-year-old Turkish woman out of xenophobia.
Erfurt	TH	April 20		1 person	An Angolan was attacked and injured from a group of young right-wingers on the night of April 20-21.
Potsdam	BB	Oct 7		1 person	Two young Germans verbally abused, beat and kicked a Turkish asylum seeker in a passenger train southwest of Berlin.
Fürstenwalde	BB	Beginning of Dec.		2 persons	"Two 16-year-old youngsters beat two asylum seekers from Sierra Leone and Vietnam in a shopping market."
Eisenhüttenstadt	BB			1 person	A 19-year-old Sudanese asylum seeker was attacked and injured by three men.

1999

place	federal country	date	Attack target	Injured	description
Lauscha	TH			1 critically injured person	Several Nazis beat up and brutally kick an African. The African was critically injured.
Guben	BB	12./13. Feb		1 dead, 1 injured	Farid Guendoul died while a group of eleven xenophobic youths hunted down in Guben .

2000

place	federal country	date	Attack target	Injured	description
Meiningen	TH	Jan. 14		1 person	The German-Iranian actor Shahbaz Noshir was insulted, spat at and attacked by a group of young neo-Nazis. (Filmed in: Fear eats up the soul )
Neuhaus	TH	April 20		1 person	An African was attacked by neo-Nazis.
Ludwigshafen-Oppau	RP	16 Jul	inhabited accommodation	3 injured	On the night of July 16, 2000, four skinheads hurled an incendiary device at a refugee shelter. An eleven-year-old girl was burned to her legs, and two other children were slightly injured by broken glass. The 14 to 18 year-old right-wing extremist perpetrators were initially able to escape undetected, but were arrested a few days later and sentenced to high youth sentences in November 2000.
Bremen	HB	Nov 1	inhabited accommodation		On November 1, 2000, a neo-Nazi who tried to blow up an asylum seekers' home was arrested. The right-wing extremist known to the police had prepared a highly explosive device. In mid-August, the police caught him while sticking Nazi posters and found a piece of paper in his trouser pocket on which various chemicals were noted. Since then, the neo-Nazi had been under surveillance until they were accessed.

2005

place	federal country	date	Attack target	Injured	description
Weissach	BW	Oct 15	Residential building		A 17-year-old youth who was also involved in the November 18 attack on an asylum seekers' home threw a Molotov cocktail at a residential building inhabited by foreigners. This ricocheted off, splintered and burned. There was no property damage and no one was injured.
Weissach	BW	Nov 18	inhabited accommodation		Three people, one of whom was also involved in the October 15 attack, threw a Molotov cocktail at an occupied asylum seeker accommodation. At the time of the attack, there were eleven people there, none of whom were injured. Across the street, stocks of a pottery factory were burning. Both fires went out by themselves and the fire brigade did not have to intervene.

2007

place	federal country	date	Attack target	Injured	description
Sangerhausen	ST	Jan. 6	inhabited accommodation		In the early morning of January 6, 2007, right-wing extremists attacked a home for asylum seekers with Molotov cocktails. Three residents barely escaped the fire that spread on the ground floor. Four offenders were sentenced in May 2010 to prison terms of up to five years and four months for attempted murder and aggravated arson.

2011

Attacks on refugees and refugee shelters in 2011

In 2011, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) registered 18 attacks on refugees and refugee accommodation, including twelve cases of the use of symbols from unconstitutional organizations, two cases of sedition and insult and one case of property damage and bodily harm. A suspect could be identified in five cases.

2012

According to the 2013 report by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , there were at least 24 right-wing extremist "crimes against asylum shelters" in 2012.

place	federal country	date	Attack target	Injured	description
Wassmannsdorf	BB	Oct 9	inhabited accommodation		Suspected right-wing extremist perpetrators threw stones and bags of paint at a home for asylum seekers on the night of October 9, 2012. Two glass doors were damaged and one window was destroyed. A resident sleeping in the room got away with the horror.

2013

Attacks on refugees and refugee shelters in 2013 (incomplete)

According to the 2014 report by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , there were at least 55 right-wing extremist “crimes against asylum shelters” in 2013. In the previous year's report, the Federal Office wrote in the section on the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD): “The instrumentalisation of the issue of 'asylum' reached its preliminary climax in October / November 2013 in the small Saxon town of Schneeberg with three demonstrations by the NPD against the so-called light runs - against a local asylum seekers home. ”(See Schneeberg defends himself .) The Federal Office also emphasized under the heading“ Risk of an escalation of violence ”on right-wing extremism:“ Since the middle of 2013, the security authorities have noted an increase in attacks on asylum seekers' homes and refugee accommodation. ”

place	federal country	date	Attack target	Injured	description
Saalfeld	TH	Feb 12	inhabited accommodation		On the night of February 12th, strangers started a fire in the washroom of a communal accommodation for asylum seekers. A burnt shower curtain caused property damage of 50 euros.
Arnstadt	TH	Jul 21	inhabited accommodation		In the early morning two soldiers of the Bundeswehr threw fireworks at a home for asylum seekers and other pyrotechnics in the back yard of the facility, shouted racist insults and repeatedly showed the Hitler salute. The drunk offenders were temporarily taken into custody, the police started investigations into sedition and property damage.
Luckenwalde	BB	16 Aug	inhabited accommodation		On the night of August 16, strangers threw a Molotov cocktail over the gate of an inhabited refugee home, which went out by itself on the entrance.
Gemünden am Main	BY	Oct 18	inhabited accommodation	2 injured	Two residents were injured in a fire in a home for asylum seekers, causing property damage of 15,000 euros. The police suspect arson.
Weir	BW	19 Oct	inhabited accommodation		An attempted arson attack on an asylum and homeless shelter in Wehr was prevented in the early morning thanks to the rapid intervention of residents. Unknown people had poured fire accelerators in the stairwell and set them on fire.
Borna	SN	31 Dec	inhabited accommodation		A group of unknown youths threw fireworks in the direction of a home for asylum seekers amid xenophobic shouts.

See also

• Chronicle of incidents hostile to refugees from 2015. mut-gegen-rechte-gewalt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x} Hermann Langer: Conflagration from the right. Verlag Jugend und Geschichte, Rostock 1993, ISBN 3-929544-04-0 [in it p. 59–74 a selection of raids in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania up to the end of 1991]
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o} Hermann Langer: conflagration from the right. Verlag Jugend und Geschichte, Rostock 1993, ISBN 3-929544-04-0 [therein pp. 59–74 a selection of raids in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania up to the end of 1992]

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