Sixty hurt in mass brawl over food at German refugee camp – as clashes with masked extremists rock towns over Berlin's open-door migrant policy
- Police used tear gas to break up riot between 400 refugees at tented camp
- German police union called for new 'apartheid' system in migrant homes
- Spy chief warned of radicalisation of right-wing groups amid migrant influx
- Xenophobic rallies and clashes shook several German towns at weekend
Sixty people were hurt when a mass riot broke out over food at a tented refugee camp in Germany.
Police used tear gas to break up brawling between around 400 refugees.
The
riot at Calden near Kassel came on the the same day Germany's biggest
police union called for a new 'apartheid' system to be enforced in
refugee homes – the separation of people according to religion – after a
number of flare ups in recent weeks.
Meanwhile,
Germany's domestic intelligence chief warned of a radicalisation of
right-wing groups amid a record influx of migrants as xenophobic rallies
and clashes shook several towns at the weekend.
Flashpoint: In the German city of
Leipzig, the right-wing rally 'Offensive for Germany', organised by
local anti-Islam activists with about 400 marchers, sparked a larger
counter-protest that police said drew more than 1,000 left-wing
activists (above) over Germany's plans to allow a record influx of
migrants into the country
Conflict: In the ensuing street clashes, the rival groups hurled rocks and fireworks at each other
Tensions boiling over: Police detain a
left-wing protester after clashes during the right-wing
Offensive for
Germany protest rally against refugees in Leipzig, eastern Germany over
the weekend
Conservative
politicians back the calls for separated refugee centres, claiming
Christians in the homes are being harassed and persecuted by hardline
Muslims.
The
former minister of the interior Hans-Peter Friedrich said: 'It is sad,
but obviously necessary that we require the separation of asylum seekers
according to religion.'
The
current chairman of the ruling CDU parliamentaty group, Volker Kauder,
said: 'Muslim associations should clearly renounce attacks on Christians
in the asylum homes.'
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Late
in August in Suhl, a dispute fuelled by religious differences flared up
into a riot with 17 people eventually needing hospital treatment. It
broke out after copies of the Koran were defaced.
In
Sunday night's food riot, the police were also attacked as they tried
to calm the situation and responded with tear gas. Most of those injured
suffered the effects of the gas.
Germany's
domestic intelligence agency also warned at the weekend that the
far-right is becoming increasingly radicalised as a result of the
country's decision to allow up to a million refugees in this year.
Germany's domestic intelligence chief
warned of a radicalisation of right-wing groups (like the one above)
amid a record influx of migrants as xenophobic rallies and clashes shook
several towns at the weekend
Anger: German spy chief Hans-Georg
Maassen warned that the far-right is becoming increasingly radicalised
as a result of the country's decision to allow up to a million refugees
in this year
'What
we're seeing in connection with the refugee crisis is a mobilisation on
the street of right-wing extremists, but also of some left-wing
extremists who oppose them,' said Hans-Georg Maassen.
He
added that for the past few years the agency - the Office for the
Protection of the Constitution - had witnessed a 'radicalisation' and 'a
greater willingness to use violence' by all extremist groups.
Police
and soldiers guarded two buses carrying about 100 migrants Saturday
night to a shelter in the town of Niederau, in the eastern Saxony state,
after right-wing protesters had rallied at the site, a former
supermarket, since Friday.
Police officers assess the scene after a mass riot broke out over food at a tented refugee camp in Germany
More
than 1,000 people also demonstrated against refugees in several towns
in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Friday, including
in coastal Stralsund where three people were wounded in clashes with
counter-protesters.
In
the eastern city of Leipzig, the right-wing rally 'Offensive for
Germany', organised by local anti-Islam activists with about 400
marchers, sparked a larger counter-protest that police said drew more
than 1,000 activists.
In the ensuing street clashes, the rival groups hurled rocks and fireworks at each other.
In the western city of Bremen unidentified people attempted to set fire to a tent that was to house refugees from October.
This
year alone has seen 22 arson attacks against would-be or existing
refugee shelters, said Maassen, whose service is called the Federal
Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
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