(27.Dezember 1992) With a crackdown on rightist violence under way in Germany, six youths who were recently arrested in the eastern town of Frankenthal seemed candidates for stiff jail sentences. They had been caught storming a hostel for asylum-seekers, terrorizing inhabitants and screaming Nazi slogans.

But prosecutors decided to free the six, explaining that there was no evidence to prove that they were radical rightists.

Several days later, a police officer in the western town of Coblenz was suspended after making statements that endorsed violence against foreigners. „You‘ve got to beat on these bimbos,“ the officer reportedly told colleagues.