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The act can be seen on a video, it is shocking: In Erfurt, according to the police, a 39-year-old man racially insulted, threatened, spat at and brutally kicked a 17-year-old Syrian in a tram.
The perpetrator initially managed to escape undetected, but "through the evidence obtained at the scene of the crime" the man known to the police could be identified promptly, the police said on Monday about the incident on Friday night.
Witnesses took pictures of what was happening in the tram and called the security forces for help.
The video later also circulated on social networks.
According to the police, the external injuries to the victim were only minor.
Assault, coercion, insult
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The alleged perpetrator is therefore a white German who is still at large.
The Erfurt criminal police took over the further investigations.
The man is accused of bodily harm, coercion and insult.
A statement from him is not yet available.
“Such a cowardly person, strong and aggressive against a defenseless person,” Thuringia's Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (left) criticized the act on Twitter.
“Simply disgusting!” The CDU parliamentary group also condemned the racist attack in the tram “in the strongest possible way”.
Treat the perpetrators with all consistency
The spokeswoman for anti-racism of the left parliamentary group in the state parliament, Katharina König-Preuss, was appalled: Criminals should be dealt with with all consistency ”, demanded the MP.
She also referred to the recently presented statistics from victim counseling Ezra. According to their count, the cases of right-wing violence in Thuringia in 2020 remained roughly at the level of previous years. The organization registered 102 right-wing, racist or anti-Semitic attacks in the past year.