A migrant was subjected to xenophobic insults and beaten up in the northern German city of Wismar Wednesday evening, police said, in an attack that comes as the country is shaken by far-right demonstrations against foreigners. Two of them then hit him in the face before the third “hit him on the shoulder and ribs with an iron chain”. He suffered a broken nose and bruises to his face and upper body, said police who have opened an investigation. The attack in the Baltic coastal city comes as Germany is reeling from weekend protests by rightwing extremists in the eastern state of Saxony, long a hotspot for xenophobia. The ugly scenes of mostly white men, many of them extremist football hooligans, hurling abuse at people they deemed to be foreigners, have deeply alarmed Germany.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 30, 2018 04:41 UTC