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NOTE to the racist attack, last Friday(5.19) against the German-Kurdish politician Giyasettin Sayan(a member of the Berlin parliament, Leftparty/Links Partei)..

Last Monday a team of the Berlin regional TV station rbb was visiting the area where G. Sayan was attacked three days before. In a short report they wanted to show the daily reality in this area. Partly the TV team was together with Christiane Emmerich, the district mayor of Berlin Lichtenberg.

In the beginning everything was fine. A nice reconstructed street in East Berlin... full in spring sunshine. Many shops, the houses beautiful painted, some signs of the latest citizens street party...

And the TV team started to ask people on the street - mostly people who are living and working there – what they’re thinking and feeling about the attack against G. Sayan(the case of the attack was reported in all Berlin newspapers, TV and radio stations..). The most of the older people gave no answer..

Three youngsters, two young women and one man, asked about the issue said that they are not interested, not at all.. One women: „It’s not our problem. We’ve nothing to say about it.“ The man: „Hey, he’s a foreigner... What he had to do here. He should stay at least in Kreuzberg(NOTE: Kreuzberg is a district of Berlin with a majority of so-called foreigners, mainly Turkish, Kurdish and Arabic), or better he should go back to his country. If he really was attacked here.. it was his own guilt!“(NOTE: G. Sayan Has a German passport, he is living in this area and a elected representative of this area in the Berlin parliament).

During the report the TV team made a interview with Chr. Emmerich, the district mayor of Lichtenberg.. in the same street. Just after the beginning of the interview on man on a bicycle passed by and attacked verbal Chr. Emmerich: „Go home.. We never will tolerate foreigners here! Foreigners out!“

Another young man, a young trainee, said that „all this foreigners, who are running around here, are just stealing our, the Gemans, work places.“ And „so it’s no wonder that the Geman youth is defending themselves“. Finally the TV team was invited by some workers into their car.. There they, the reporters, must listen to hard-core racist slogans and were threaten with some kind of physical attacks if they would continue to report about this issue there.

Meanwhile in the follwing night in Hellersdorf, another district in East Berlin, "unknown people", so the media, attacked the Babylon House, a inter-cultural youth center, with fire bombs. The attackers painted swastikas(Hakenkreuze) and slogans such as „White Power“ on the walls.
Babylon House is a center especially for young people from Russia and Poland.

A very strange report by the German magazine Der Spiegel .. but just in German .. you can read here..

"Potsdam war die Hölle".. potsdam was the hell..

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/debatte/0,1518,416919,00.html