At a school in Cottbus, a teacher apparently became violent against two students with a migrant background.

As Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) reported on Wednesday, one of the boys was injured so badly that he had to be treated as an inpatient in a clinic.

The Brandenburg Ministry of Education confirmed the incident.

According to police, the parents filed a report after the incidents in September 2023.

A spokeswoman said they were investigating.

A racist motive is also being examined.

According to the Victim Perspective Association, both boys were twelve years old at the time.

According to the RBB report, a student was hit in the neck by the teacher and had to be hospitalized with a cervical spine injury.

The teacher is said to have kicked a second student in the back when he contradicted a derogatory statement the teacher made about his country of origin.

No more school contact between the affected children and the teacher

The Ministry of Education said it was very sorry that the case described had occurred.

“All the departments involved took the investigation very seriously - including the parents with custody.” The school management informed the Cottbus school authority about the status of the incident on the day of the incident.

There was also a conversation with the teacher.

According to the knowledge of the school authority, there is no longer any school contact between the children concerned and the teacher and there will be no contact, said the ministry. Details were not given with reference to data protection.

Since the attacks became known, Joschka Fröschner from the Cottbus team of the Victim Perspective Association has been looking after both families who had a history of escape, as he reported.

It was important to those affected to make the violence against their children public, he said.

According to him, the school has so far refused to speak about the incident.

The children continued to go to this school.

"It's completely incomprehensible to me that there hasn't been an apology from the school or the school authority to the families, I don't understand that at all."

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