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Offenbach, 15 August 1994
49.
There was an arson attack on "Grazer Stube", owned by the Turkish Genç
family, around midnight. The inside of the bar was completely destroyed and
there was damage estimated at DM 200,000. It is alleged that the incident was
racially motivated.
Alsdorf, August 1994
50.
There was an arson attack on the two-storey house of the Turkish Colak
family. Cemal Colak (52 years old) had been working in Germany for 24 years.
There are allegations that the house of the Colak family was burnt by racists.
Brandenburg, August 1994
51.
Plainclothes soldiers held a demonstration during which they shouted
racist and xenophobic slogans. This incident has been widely covered by the
international media.
Böblingen, 2 September 1994
52.
An arson attack during the night against the office of Turkish citizens
Eser Güzel and Ali Güzel caused damage of DM 30,000.
Brandenburg, 21 September 1994
53.
Two young Turkish men were mugged by three neo-Nazis and beaten with
baseball bats. It is alleged that the assailants attacked the Turks on purely
racial grounds.
Weiden, 21 September 1994
54.
A pre-dawn arson attack was carried out on a residential building which
belonged to the Seltmann Porcelain Factory, where approximately 100 Turkish
people lived. The fact that two Molotov cocktails were thrown off a balcony
indicates that the attack was aimed at homicide. Three neo-Nazis were
arrested and charged with the crime by the police, but were later released on
the grounds that "they only tried to play a joke". It was later decided, at
the request of the examining magistrate, that the defendants, who had been
involved in similar attacks in the past, should be detained until their trial.
Herford, 28 September 1994
55.
Bukureje Haliti, a 23-year-old handicapped woman from the former
Yugoslavia, and Navgim Haliti, her 11-year-old brother, were killed at
around 4 a.m. in an arson attack on a refugee camp composed of container
houses. Fireworks were used to set off two cans filled with petrol in the
entrance to one of the 40 container homes. The container was a blackened hulk
after the fire and another container was badly damaged. There were no other
injuries, although 74 foreigners from the former Yugoslavia and Romania were
inside the camp. A racist motive was ruled out by the Federal Prosecutor in