List of anti-refugee attacks in Germany 2018

Attacks on refugees and refugee shelters in 2018 (incomplete)

The list of anti-refugee attacks in Germany 2018 includes attacks and attacks on refugees and refugee accommodation in Germany in 2018, in which xenophobic and racist motives are proven or likely. The list is not yet complete. Particularly serious attacks with injured 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 . For historical background, counter-initiatives and other annual lists, see Attacks hostile to refugees in the Federal Republic of Germany .

place	federal country	date	Target of attack	Injured	description	Suspects known
cottbus	BB	0January 1st	inhabited accommodation, refugees	three injured	On New Year's Eve, several people stormed a home for asylum seekers and attacked refugees, three Afghans were injured.	No
Dresden	SN	0January 9th	Refugees	An injured person	A group of people first verbally abused an asylum seeker, then one person from the group let her dog loose on the refugee. The 19-year-old Ethiopian was knocked to the ground by the dog and bitten; a passerby was finally able to persuade the dog owner to call her animal back. In addition to the bite wounds, the victim also suffered shock.	No
Feet	BY	January 19th	Refugees	(An injured person)	A 36-year-old shot at three Afghan asylum seekers in the stairwell of an apartment building. One of the refugees appeared to panic and tried to open a window to jump from the fourth floor. During or before the unclear argument, one of the victims was injured.	Yes
Walsdorf (Upper Franconia)	BY	January 26th	inhabited accommodation	two injured	Several men shouted racist slogans in front of a refugee home and pelted residents with stones, two refugees were injured and three suspects were arrested.	Yes
Meggen (Lennestadt)	NW	January 28th	inhabited accommodation		Unknown perpetrators set fire to the gate of an empty storage room adjacent to a refugee accommodation with the help of an accelerator. The family living on the upper floor of the property was not affected by the arson.	No
Guben	BB	January 28th	Refugees	An injured person	A group of seven men provoked and insulted six asylum seekers on their way home and threw bottles at them, no one was injured. An uninvolved 65-year-old had to be treated in hospital for circulatory problems.	Yes
Nussdorf am Inn	BY	03 February	accommodation		Unknown people sprayed a swastika on the facade of an asylum seekers home.	No
Greifswald	MV	0February 4th	Refugees	four injured	In an argument between seven Germans and three Eritreans, the three asylum seekers were attacked by a 24-year-old with a smashed beer bottle, and the refugees were beaten by the group of seven Germans. The 24-year-old suspect injured his hand, the three attacked sustained minor injuries.	Yes
Taught	NI	February 15th	Refugees	two injured	A stranger beat up a 16-year-old refugee in the S-Bahn. A classmate of the victim came to mediate that he was also said to have been beaten by the perpetrator. The 16-year-old asylum seeker suffered a bruise on his forehead and a tear in his ear.	No
Brandenburg on the Havel	BB	February 16	Refugees	two injured	A stranger hit a 21-year-old Afghan in the face in a bus, then got out, threw a bottle in the direction of the bus, injuring an uninvolved 56-year-old and destroyed a window on the bus. Thereupon the asylum seeker and three companions left the bus and held the perpetrator, who drew a long knife from under his jacket, saying "I'll stab you all off!" threatened and fled the scene. The 56-year-old woman had to be treated in the hospital.	No
Heilbronn	BW	February 17th	Refugees	three injured	Shortly after 9 p.m., a 70-year-old Russian stabbed asylum seekers in front of Kilian's Church with a 19 cm knife. Passers-by overwhelmed the attacker and arrested him until the police arrived. A 25-year-old Iraqi was seriously injured, his two companions from Syria and Afghanistan were slightly injured and another was able to avoid the stings. The prosecution classified the attack as attempted murder with a racist motive.	Yes
Cologne - Neuehrenfeld	NW	February 17th	Refugees	An injured person	In the evening, a stranger approached an asylum seeker riding a bicycle and, under a pretext, lured him to a group of trees on a hill, where two other strangers were waiting, who showed the 26-year-old refugee three swastikas that had been sprayed on trees. The three strangers then insulted, kicked, hit and choked the refugee. A passer-by found the asylum seeker lying on the ground and called an ambulance.	No
Memmingen	BY	February 17th	accommodation		During the night, strangers threw in the kitchen window of a refugee home.	No
Halle (Saale)	ST	February 18	Refugees	An injured person	An unknown couple racially insulted a 24-year-old Iraqi man on his doorstep. Then one of the perpetrators gave the Iraqi a head-butt.	No
Spice up	SN	February 23	Refugees	An injured person	Two strangers beat and kicked a pregnant 19-year-old woman in front of her dormitory, insulted her in a racist manner and declared that they did not want "no foreign babies" in Germany. The Eritrean woman had to be treated in hospital.	No
Rostock	MV	February 25	Refugees	two injured	At night, three men attacked a German and her two companions from Syria and Iraq, beat and kicked them. The two asylum seekers were also electrocuted by an electric shock device and suffered bruises on their upper body, head and arms. The police later found two suspects who had been drunk, one of whom had already been known to the police.	Yes
Dessau-Rosslau	ST	01st March	inhabited accommodation	six injured	Late in the evening, a man set objects on fire under the basement stairs of an apartment building. The building also serves as accommodation for underage refugees. Four refugees and two other tenants had to be treated on suspicion of smoke inhalation. The 27-year-old suspect was arrested in the vicinity of the apartment block that very night. A racist motive is examined.	Yes
Alps (Lower Rhine)	NW	02nd March	inhabited accommodation		In the evening, strangers blew up the metal mailbox of an asylum shelter, no one was injured. A 36-year-old resident observed three men fleeing the crime scene on bicycles.	No
Arnstadt	TH	March 10th	Refugees	two injured	In the evening, an unknown intoxicated person attacked two Syrian asylum seekers in the area of ​​a public toilet. The two Syrians suffered minor injuries.	No
Sollstedt	TH	March 12th	Refugees	An injured person	An unknown man, accompanied by a woman and a child, insulted a 17-year-old Afghans in a supermarket parking lot and attacked him with a glass bottle. The stranger gave the Afghan two nuts in the head and then left the scene.	No
Saalfeld / Saale	TH	March 12th	Refugees	An injured person	A 38-year-old German insulted, hit and kicked a 57-year-old woman from Afghanistan in the shin, the victim suffered minor injuries. A short time later, the intoxicated German insulted two other Afghan asylum seekers and threw a plate at them, nobody was injured. Police officers filed several criminal charges against the 38-year-old who was already known to the police.	Yes
Erfurt	TH	June 30th	Refugees	An injured person	Four men first approached a Somali asylum seeker and asked for his ID. When the refugee replied whether they were police officers, the perpetrators suddenly beat him. The Somali suffered injuries to his foot and rib.	No
Plauen	SN	02nd July	Refugees	An injured person	A 20-year-old was insulted, harassed and finally attacked in a parking lot by a group of Germans and their dog. The Gambier had to be treated as an outpatient in the hospital.	No
Bad Düben	SN	08th of July	Refugees	An injured person	On the way home from an event, a Pakistani asylum seeker and his friends were persecuted, racially insulted and then attacked by around a dozen people. Both of the Pakistan's hands were broken in the process, and the attackers only let go when other friends rushed to help.	No
Weissenfels	ST	10th of July	Refugees		Several people racially insulted and pushed a 49-year-old Syrian asylum seeker. The police were able to locate a suspect at the scene.	Yes
Rostock	MV	July 11th	Refugees	An injured person	Three Syrian asylum seekers encountered a woman and two men with dogs in a suburban train tunnel in the north of the city, who abused the refugees with xenophobic slogans. One of the refugees wanted to call the perpetrators to account, whereupon one of the perpetrators hit the refugee and stabbed him with a knife. Another attacker also hit the asylum seeker and tried to turn his dog against him. The Syrian was injured in the chest and lungs. The attackers then fled, but later surrendered to the police.	Yes
Halle (Saale)	ST	15th of July	Refugees	two injured	When two 17- and 18-year-old Afghans were at a tram stop, a man with an Eastern European accent got out of a car, racially insulted the two victims and hit them with an iron bar. After that, the attacker got back into his car and walked away from the crime scene. The two asylum seekers suffered bruises and had to be treated on an outpatient basis.	No
Kahla	TH	July 18th	Refugees	An injured person	A 16-year-old boy was asked about fire by three men in front of a train station, when he said no, he was grabbed by a perpetrator and pushed to the ground. All three attackers hit the 16-year-old until he escaped. The 16-year-old Afghan suffered minor injuries.	No
Undersize field	TH	July 23	Refugees		After an argument with four underage refugees, a 35-year-old shot at them, but they remained unharmed. The man was arrested and two alarm guns and one airsoft gun were confiscated.	Yes
Munich	BY	July 23	Refugees	An injured person	In the morning, a stranger racially insulted an Eritrean refugee. The 23-year-old asylum seeker left, but the attacker followed him and hit him in the neck. An initiated manhunt for the man was fruitless.	No
Cham	BY	30th July	Refugees	An injured person	A group of young Germans abused a group of asylum seekers with right-wing extremist slogans. One of the perpetrators ultimately escalated the dispute by slapping an 18-year-old refugee in the face, who was kicked by others while lying on the ground. The injured asylum seeker was treated in hospital.	No
Chemnitz	SN	August 26th August 27th	Refugees	20 injured	Attacks on refugees as part of the riots in Chemnitz in 2018
Sondershausen	TH	29th August	Refugees	An injured person	During a dispute on the market square, a 33-year-old asylum seeker from Eritrea was brought down and beaten and kicked; the police were already aware of the attackers because of their right-wing sentiments.	Yes
Wismar	MV	29th August	Refugees	An injured person	In the evening, a 20-year-old asylum seeker was racially insulted by three perpetrators. Two suspects hit the refugee in the face, a third threw an iron chain against his ribs and shoulders, after the victim fell, the perpetrators continued to kick him and later fled. The Syrian asylum seeker was seriously injured and treated in hospital.	No
Chemnitz	SN	0September 1	Refugees	An injured person	Six or seven masked people chased two asylum seekers from Afghanistan and Somalia in a residential area of ​​Chemnitz. The Somali managed to escape the strangers, but the Afghan was beaten up by the perpetrators. ( Riots in Chemnitz 2018 )	No
Sebnitz	SN	05th September	Refugees	An injured person	A stranger pushed a 20-year-old Syrian asylum seeker on the street and shouted xenophobic slogans, then the attacker hit the Syrian with an iron chain, who suffered serious head injuries.	No
Demmin	MV	0September 6th	Refugees	two injured	Two strangers rioted in front of the homes of Syrian refugees, one of the attackers broke through a window and grabbed the 13-year-old son of the family by the shoulders, but the mother pushed the man back and closed the window. The boy and his 1 year old sister had to be hospitalized for shock.	No
Dresden	SN	September 10	Refugees	An injured person	A 17-year-old Afghan asylum seeker was injured when a stranger kicked her lower leg on the tram and insulted her.	No
Chemnitz	SN	12th September	Refugees	An injured person	A 41-year-old asylum seeker from Tunisia was racially insulted and beaten by strangers in the street. ( Riots in Chemnitz 2018 )	No
Chemnitz	SN	September 14th	Refugees	An injured person	Riots in Chemnitz 2018 # Activities of a self-proclaimed "vigilante"	Yes
Halberstadt	ST	September 15th	Refugees	three injured	When three asylum seekers were on their way to their accommodation, they were attacked by at least five Germans and suffered injuries from beatings. The three refugees from Somalia had to be treated in hospital.	No
Upper Harz on the Brocken	ST	September 15th	Refugees	An injured person	Two unknown Germans insulted a group of young asylum seekers on the edge of a sports field with racist slogans and beat a 17-year-old Afghan. A supervisor who tried to intervene was pushed into a car but was not injured. The perpetrators managed to escape in a car without being identified.	No
Bad Ueberkingen	BW	September 18	inhabited accommodation		A 32-year-old set the door of a technical room with heating and gas connection of an asylum seekers' accommodation on fire, but the fire went out by itself. A resident of the accommodation observed the incident and called a roommate who held the suspected arsonist until the police arrived. The 32-year-old was arrested and a swastika flag and several sheets of paper painted with SS runes and swastikas were confiscated from her apartment. The perpetrator also confessed to another arson in front of a Turkish grocery store.	Yes
Quedlinburg	ST	September 20th	Refugees	two injured	Two asylum seekers from Eritrea were insulted by a group of four Germans. When the two Eritreans tried to record the situation with their cell phones, the men knocked the devices out of their hands and began beating the asylum seekers, who suffered minor injuries. An intervening witness prevented worse, but the perpetrators were able to flee.	No
Werdau	SN	September 28th	inhabited accommodation		A 25-year-old threw an incendiary device over the entrance gate of a refugee accommodation. The man was identified by video surveillance and was taken into custody.	Yes
Oldenburg	NI	30. September	Refugees	An injured person	On the way back from a folk festival, a 19-year-old Yazidi asylum seeker was kicked to the ground by a group approaching him and abused with Islamophobic slogans and shouts of "Sieg Heil". The refugee was seriously injured.	No
Burgstädt	SN	0October 2nd	Refugees	An injured person	A driver insulted a group of asylum seekers, then drove on, but returned after a short time. The man got out of the vehicle, pulled out a knife and a pepper spray, which he sprayed in the face of an Afghan asylum seeker. The refugee had to be treated in hospital and testified that he had stayed out of public places since the incident.	No
Karlsruhe	BW	28th of October	Refugees	An injured person	Two men pushed an asylum seeker from Cameroon against a sign and hit him in the face, causing the attacked person to briefly lose consciousness, who then had to be treated in hospital. According to witnesses, after the attack, "That's how it works in Germany!" have called.	No
Magdeburg	ST	28th of October	Refugees	two injured	Two asylum seekers and a woman were in Sudenburg around 6 p.m. when they were insulted by some people. The victims then went to a tram stop, where 25-30 people showed up and started beating the two asylum seekers, who suffered facial hematomas and a broken nose.	No
Rostock	MV	03rd of December	Refugees	An injured person	A woman and two men pushed an asylum seeker from Gambia and insulted him racially. One of the perpetrators hit the Gambier in the face, presumably with a hammer. The 35-year-old victim suffered a broken nose, a concussion and a split lip and requires surgical treatment. The police arrested a man who allegedly hit the Gambier with a hammer.	Yes

Individual evidence

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