A gaggle of migrant college students needed to cancel their discipline journey after being racially insulted and threatened by right-wing extremists within the japanese state of Brandenburg, authorities mentioned on Monday.
Berlin’s Education Minister Katharina Gunther-Wunsch mentioned the scholars from the Lina Morgenstern School safely retuned to the town, and so they had been supplied psychological assist after the racist incident.
“I would like to thank the school administration, and the teachers who were with the students, and took the right decisions there,” she mentioned in a press release.
According to the BZ newspaper, round 20 college students aged between 15 and 16, had been on a examine journey with their academics when the racist incident occurred at a campsite close to the Frauensee lake.
A gaggle of right-wing extremists on the tenting space first shouted racist slurs in opposition to the scholars, and later threatened them with violence, and a few of them additionally tried to interrupt into the hostel the scholars had been staying, in accordance with the report.
The academics needed to cancel the examine journey for the protection of the scholars, and so they all left the campsite with police escorts on Saturday night time.
Germany has witnessed rising racism in recent times, fueled by the propaganda of far-right teams and events, which have exploited the refugee disaster and tried to stoke worry of immigrants.
Neo-Nazis and right-wing extremists carried out no less than 1,138 violent assaults final yr. At least 478 folks had been injured in these assaults, in accordance with official figures.
Source: www.anews.com.tr