Merkel condemns neo-Nazi riots outside refugee shelter

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Merkel condemns neo-Nazi riots outside refugee shelter
Frank Jordans, Associated Press
Updated 1:14 pm, Monday, August 24, 2015

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday condemned the neo-Nazi riots outside a refugee shelter in eastern Germany over the weekend, calling the attacks and those Germans who stood by watching them "shameful."

Dozens of police were injured when a far-right mob hurled bottles and fireworks at officers trying to ensure asylum seekers could move into a shelter in Heidenau, south of Dresden.

Merkel, who had been criticized by commentators in Germany for failing to speak out swiftly against the attacks, which began Friday night, said the images shown on television were "shocking."

"I condemn in the strongest possible terms the violent outbursts," she told reporters in Berlin. "There was an aggressive mood against foreigners there that isn't acceptable in any way."



Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Merkel-s-deputy-to-visit-refugee-home-attacked-by-6461430.php

[jkbRN]

1. Would've liked a sooner

response from her--but happy nonetheless that she condemned the acts.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Welcome to D.U., jkbRN.

[jkbRN]

8. Thank you!!

[jtuck004]

3. Very passionate. People like that right here. n/t

[nlkennedy]

4. A scary sociological concept...

Grandchildren more fervently adopt the grandparents' cultural positions...way more than the grandparents' children had...

Today's generation is going to be so obsessed with totalitarianism, Nazism and fascism.

It's our fault for letting the PC police be hijacked by conservatives...(being a racist is so bad that the act of labeling one a racist is more egregious than being one)..

We hand hold psycho little fascists in the name of cultural and moral relativism...Merkel's condemnation is useless...if it was popular enough she would be on their side...

[Time For Peace]

7. Coincidental, but worth mentioning, considering your post.

Merkels father was in the Hitler Youth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Kasner

Little is known about Horst Kasner's wartime service, and he was held as a prisoner of war at the age of 19. During his high school years he was a member of the Hitler Youth, with the last service position of a troop leader.[citation needed] From 1948 he studied theology, first in Heidelberg then in Hamburg. He married Herlind Jentzsch, an English and Latin teacher, born on 8 July 1928 in Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) as the daughter of Danzig politician Willi Jentzsch, and their daughter Angela was born in 1954.

[pampango]

5. Response to far-right: "There was an aggressive mood against foreigners there that isn't acceptable.

The far-right is leading the opposition to immigration and the acceptance of refugees all over Europe. The fight against them cannot rest.

[Sunlei]

6. Germany allows the publishing of home addresses of immigrants so all the nazis know who to attack.