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After Sylt video, increasingly more racist incidents come to gentle

Following the racism scandal at a celebration on the island of Sylt, related incidents have gotten extra frequent. Racist chants are additionally stated to have taken place at taking pictures festivals in Lower Saxony, on the Schlagermove in Hamburg, in Saxony-Anhalt and at a prime boarding faculty in Schleswig-Holstein.

A brief video from the Whitsun get together in a bar on Sylt sparked nationwide outrage a couple of days in the past as a result of visitors sang “Foreigners out” and “Germany for the Germans” to the tune of the get together hit “L'amour toujours” by Gigi D'Agostino. The police's state safety division is investigating. At least two of these recognized have misplaced their jobs.

Racist chants in Lower Saxony

In Lower Saxony, a number of individuals are stated to have sung racist slogans to the tune at an occasion lasting a number of days in Altendorf, north of Wolfsburg, in response to police stories. State safety is investigating and is on the lookout for witnesses to the incident that came about on Sunday night time. The “Braunschweiger Zeitung” had beforehand reported on it. Before that, an identical incident had already been reported on the taking pictures competition in Löningen (Cloppenburg district), which had occurred on Pentecost.

At the Schlagermove get together parade in Hamburg on Saturday night, revelers shouted racist slogans to “L'Amour Toujours,” police stated. Some members are stated to have given the Hitler salute. The State Criminal Police Office for State Security Offenses has taken over the investigation.

Several police departments are investigating in Saxony-Anhalt. As the police station within the Burgenland district introduced on Monday, the 20-year-old get together hit “Foreigners out” and “Germany for the Germans” had been chanted in a marquee on the conventional Leißlinger Eierbetteln competition close to Weißenfels. Investigations are underway for incitement, a police spokeswoman stated. According to police, there have been additional incidents in Magdeburg and Halle.

Racist feedback at pupil get together in boarding faculty

At the famend Louisenlund boarding faculty in Schleswig-Holstein, underage college students are stated to have sung racist slogans to the melody at a celebration on Thursday. The lecturers then broke up the get together and despatched the scholars to mattress, the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Education introduced on Monday. The ministry has additionally organized for an investigation by the varsity inspectorate.

According to the boarding faculty director Peter Rösner, additional discussions had been held with among the college students. In a match of nice “stupidity” they wished to mimic the video made on Sylt. They weren’t conscious of the potential penalties. According to Rösner, they are going to be suspended from faculty for per week.

D'Agostino tune to be banned at Oktoberfest

Because of the re-writing of the tune with right-wing extremist lyrics, the organizers of the Munich Oktoberfest aren’t even going to play the tune “L'amour toujours” as a precaution. “We want to ban it and I will ban it,” Oktoberfest boss Clemens Baumgärtner instructed the German Press Agency on Monday. “There is no room for all that right-wing crap at the Wiesn.” The tune itself just isn’t right-wing extremist, nevertheless it has acquired a “very clear right-wing extremist connotation.” The “Münchner Merkur” had beforehand reported this.

The tune can even not be performed within the Stuttgart fan zone for the European Football Championship and on the Cannstatter Volksfest within the autumn. This was introduced by a spokesperson for the occasion firm.

The organizers of the Kiel Week (22 to 30 June), nevertheless, see no authorized foundation for a ban, as director Philipp Dornberger instructed the German Press Agency. However, the operators of get together and music phases ought to be made conscious of the difficulty.

In latest months, there have been repeated incidents within the federal states by which neo-Nazi slogans had been shouted together with the tune. On Friday night, two guests to a competition in Erlangen yelled racist slogans together with the music. At a Whitsun competition in Upper Palatinate, guests are additionally stated to have shouted “Foreigners out” when the tune was performed.

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