RACIST ATTACK AGAINST AFRICAN IN BERLIN

FECL 28 (October 1994)

In mid-September, six skinheads pushed a 25 year old Ghanaian man from a running train after stabbing him. The victim lay on the railway embankment for over 10 hours before he was discovered by a train driver. The man suffered a fracture of the skull and his lower leg had to be amputated.

Although several travellers were in the car, when the attack occurred, nobody intervened or even informed the police. It is also unclear why the man, lying besides the track was not discovered earlier, although many trains passed.

The outraged foreigners' commissioner of Berlin asked at a press conference: "Why did the fellow travellers not inform the police at once? Why are we tolerating such crimes?"

Only after a public appeal did witnesses start to come forward. But according to the police, it will be difficult to find the culprits, "in view of the large number of skinheads" in Berlin.

Source: Frankfurter Rundschau, 24.9.94v