Racist riots in Mügeln 2007

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During the racist riots in Mügeln in 2007 , eight Indians fled to a nearby pizzeria after an argument in front of around 50 visitors to a city festival, who threatened and insulted them. Because of the racist nature of the insults, several people were later convicted of sedition .

The events brought the small Saxon town ( district of North Saxony ) into the spotlight of the German and international daily press.

incident

On the night of August 19, 2007, violent clashes broke out during a city festival. A group of eight Indians got into an argument with other festival participants and, after a fight, was followed by a group of 50 violent Germans to a nearby pizzeria. Two policemen protected the Indians and after a while they were supported by the "Westsachsen" police force. It happened to be deployed nearby and took over an hour to get the situation under control. 14 people, including two police officers, were injured. Up to 200 people were involved in the incident.

Investigations

The public prosecutor's office also initially rated the attack as a "hunt". In the course of the process, she came to the opinion - despite specific references to masterminds from the right-wing extremist scene - that testimonies had not given any indications that "the events as a whole were based on a planned and organized right-wing extremist background", but that it was from a crowd came out to "clearly xenophobic statements made by individuals". A study published in 2014 reveals serious errors in the fight against right-wing extremist acts of violence in Saxony, describes witnesses intimidated by investigators and an “unobjective and emotionally aggressive interrogation practice”.

Penal orders and judgments

Two months after the incident, the public prosecutor brought indictments of incitement to the people against several people involved.

Later on, a 35-year-old accepted a fine of 1500 euros without a trial.

A penalty order against a 22-year-old in the amount of 2625 euros was not accepted by him; He was therefore on trial from January 7, 2008 and was sentenced on January 15 to six months' imprisonment with suspended prison sentences.

An 18-year-old was convicted of sedition on November 26, 2007 and had to pay 600 euros to the child protection association under youth criminal law. He had stood trial for shouting xenophobic slogans on the night of August 19. On December 4, 2007, the district court of Oschatz sentenced a 23-year-old man to eight months in prison for incitement to hatred and damage to property ; the sentence was not suspended. The court found it proven that the accused had played a leading role in the attack on the Indians. It went beyond the prosecution's request for a ten-month suspended sentence. The man put citing one. In July 2008, the Leipzig Regional Court converted the sentence into an eight-month suspended sentence.

The investigations initiated by the public prosecutor's office against four Indians have meanwhile been discontinued, as the public prosecutor's office believed that there was self-defense .

Publicity

The mayor of Mügeln Gotthard Deuse came under public criticism after the incident because of statements that were sometimes viewed as trivializing. He commented on the shouts of “foreigners out” and “Germany for the Germans” that had accompanied the attack with the words: “Such slogans can come from anyone's lips.” He also gave an interview to the newspaper Junge Freiheit , in which he Mügeln referred to as the "new Sebnitz ". The incident triggered an extensive discussion at the federal political level about the extent and form of support for municipalities and associations in the preventive fight against right-wing extremism. In the reception of right-wing media, the obviously racially motivated attacks were played down and justified with the existence of a self-defense situation, and the role of perpetrator and victim was reversed.

The band Virginia Now! broke off a concert in Mügeln a week after the incident. The band had come to attend an open dialogue event. Instead of a discussion, however, it only took place as an “advertising event for the place” and Mügeln presented himself as a victim.

After the riots, Federal Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen announced that a local action plan would be financed for the Torgau-Oschatz district , which was one of the rejected applicants for the federal program against right-wing extremism - diversity does well . Contrary to the announcements, no action plan was introduced in Mügeln, but referred to the already active mobile intervention teams of the federal program Competent for Democracy .

According to a documentary entitled " The day when the mob hounded the Indians " broadcast on the first program of ARD on September 17, 2008 , an eyewitness who gave the station an interview was attacked and seriously injured.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Britta Schellenberg: The media . In: The Right-Wing Extremism Debate. Characteristics, conflicts and their consequences . Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-04176-2 , p. 232 f.
  2. ^ Neo-Nazi rampage triggers alarm in Berlin. In: Times , August 20, 2007 ( online )
  3. ↑ Indians hurt in German 'racist' hit . In: "The Telegraph", Calcutta, August 21, 2007 ( online ( memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and remove then this note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.telegraphindia.com
  4. ^ Germans probe assault on Indians. BBC, August 21, 2007 ( online )
  5. ^ Philipp Wittrock: Hunting in Mügeln . On: Spiegel Online , August 22, 2007. Retrieved September 11, 2009.
  6. ↑ a b c Peter Glanninger: racism and right: racist argumentation and its historical development lines . In: People and Society. Series of publications for social medicine, social psychiatry, medical anthropology and philosophical reflections . tape 16 . Peter Lang , Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-57501-7 , p. 206 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  7. ^ No right-wing hunt for Indians in Mügeln
  8. ↑ Mügeln Mob - xenophobic, but not organized , n-tv , August 31, 2007 ( online )
  9. ↑ Steffen Winter: "Racist Hegemony" in Der Spiegel, No. 25 / June 16, 2014, p. 48f, excerpts available online
  10. ^ Mügeln witnesses with amnesia. In: taz , January 8, 2008
  11. ^ Judgment on riots tightened. In: Focus , January 14, 2008 ( online )
  12. ^ Judgment on deterrence. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , December 4, 2007
  13. ↑ Main culprit von Mügeln contests judgment . In: Financial Times , December 5, 2007 ( online ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ))
  14. ↑ Probation instead of imprisonment for Mügeln offenders . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 16, 2008 ( online )
  15. ↑ Suspended sentences after the attack in Mügeln, MDR Radio 1, February 25, 2009, 12:23 p.m. ( Memento from August 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  16. Jump up a week afterwards: Appease, pity - and excuse nothing. In: Spiegel Online , August 26, 2007 ( online )
  17. ↑ Mayor of Mügeln: "Slogans can come off everyone's lips". In: Der Standard , August 30, 2007 ( online )
  18. ↑ Mayor plays down right-wing slogans. In: Stern , August 22, 2007 ( online )
  19. ↑ Deuse is talking about head and neck. In: Der Spiegel , August 30, 2007 ( online )
  20. ↑ Mügeln - not now! In: sueddeutsche.de , August 28, 2007 ( online ( memento of the original from January 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice . ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sueddeutsche.de
  21. ↑ Webpage of the Green Member of the Bundestag Monika Lazar regarding the question to the Federal Government on the topic of September 19, 2007
  22. ↑ Witness from TV documentary about Mügeln being beaten up. In: Spiegel Online, September 30, 2008 ( online )