Onlookers cheer as German refugee home burns
BERLIN Onlookers celebrated as a suspected arson fire damaged a former hotel being converted into a canada goose uk outlet refugee home in eastern Germany, police said Sunday, raising new concerns about violence against migrants in Canada Goose Coats On Sale a nation that registered more than a million asylum seekers canada goose outlet jackets last year.
The blaze in the roof of the canada goose outlet building in canada goose outlet uk sale cheap canada goose Bautzen, in the eastern state of canada goose factory sale Saxony, broke out overnight. Police said no one was injured, but a group of people gathered outside, some with derogatory remarks or unashamed joy at the fire.
While most Germans have been welcoming toward refugees, a vocal canada goose black friday sale minority has staged protests in front of refugee homes, especially in the east. Germany last year saw a surge Canada Goose Jackets in violence against such lodgings.
Police ordered three people canada goose outlet new york city to leave the fire scene because they were hampering firefighters work and then temporarily detained two of them, whom they described as intoxicated 20 year old locals, after official canada goose outlet they ignored the order.
Investigators found traces of a fire accelerant at the scene and believe the fire was caused by arson, police said. It wasn immediately clear whether the building can be restored. In August, a mob in Heidenau, outside Dresden, hurled bottles and fireworks at police protecting a shelter being set canada goose outlet online up for refugees.
The Bautzen fire came after a mob in the small town of Clausnitz, canada goose uk shop also in Saxony, on Thursday screamed are the people! and home! as they blocked a canada goose factory outlet bus carrying asylum seekers outside canada goose jacket outlet a new refugee home.
Police drew criticism in that case https://www.kabbalah-arizal.nl for roughly hauling some migrants off the bus and into the building which they insist was necessary to prevent the situation from escalating and for saying that some of the migrants had canada goose coats made provocative gestures.
Saxony Governor Stanislaw Tillich called the two incidents and shocking and described the perpetrators as Canada Goose Online is abhorrent and disgusting, Tillich told the Funke newspaper group. Minister Thomas de Maiziere said that everyone in Germany is entitled to express their concerns, there canada goose outlet black friday is canada goose store a threshold of decency and law that must not be crossed and this cheap canada goose threshold was clearly crossed in the incidents in Saxony, the news agency dpa reported.
is completely unacceptable for people who are seeking canada goose outlet store uk protection from persecution here to be greeted with hatred and agitation, de Maiziere added.
Later Sunday, the minister defended police actions in Clausnitz, saying they were right to get all the migrants off the bus quickly and into the building. If the bus had been backed away from the refugee home, bawling people would have had their way, de Maiziere said on ARD television.
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