Dramatic footage shows a refugee woman spitting at a horde of anti-migrant protesters who swarmed around their bus in the tiny German village where they are to be housed.
German
police, who came under fire for violently removing refugees from the
bus, have pointed to the video as proof that the new arrivals provoked
the already frenzied mob.
The
20 refugees on the bus were the first to be homed in Clausnitz, home to
just 800 people, where an asylum home has been set up for them.
The
German government condemned the 'cold hearted and cowardly' mob that
tried to stop them from taking shelter in the asylum centre, calling the
episode 'deeply shameful'.
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Anger: Dramatic footage appears to
show a refugee woman (centre) spitting at the anti-migrant protesters
who had swarmed around their bus
Fury: A 100 strong mob chanted 'We are
the people' and 'Go home' as the 20 refugees disembarked the bus
in Clausnitz, eastern Germany, where they will be housed in a new asylum
centre
Now police and eyewitnesses have claimed the asylum seekers deliberately enraged the mob as they alighted to their new home.
The
refugees are said to have made cut throat gestures by drawing their
fingers across their own throats - and one woman wearing an Islamic head
scarf was filmed spitting at protesters.
Clausnitz
mayor Michael Funke defended the protesters, saying many had turned up
to see who was arriving to occupy the new asylum centre.
He
said the police were forced to act when some children on the bus -
scared of the 100 strong mob outside - refused to leave. Some of the
refugees appeared to be weeping as they voluntarily disembarked.
One video showed a policeman grabbing a young boy and aggressively shunting him from the coach.Local
police defended the his actions, saying they needed to get them inside
the hostel as quickly as possible as the situation became more tense.
They
also claimed the youngster grabbed in the video was one of the
'troublemakers' who provoked the crowd by giving them the middle finger
from inside.
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