In February 1999 a group of right wing thugs chased an Algerian through the East German town of Guben. Fearing for his life, the man jumped through a glass window and bled to death. Eleven young men stand accused. Two of them also desecrated the victim’s grave. On Adolf Hitler’s birthday in April this year, a synagogue was firebombed and three neo-Nazis left their trademark behind - “Heil Hitler”. In the past year several fatal attacks on foreigners have taken place, many of them in the former East. The NPD has the legal right to demonstrate their views with police protection. A ban would change this.

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