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ERFURT: Twelve suspects in what police are describing as a racially-motivated attack on three Guinean men in the eastern German city of Erfurt were released from detention on Sunday.
The suspects were arrested and briefly detained in connection with what police said was a “xenophobic attack” outside a known meeting place for far-right groups in the capital of the eastern German state of Thuringia.
Police said one of the three victims, a 21-year-old, had temporarily been in a “critical” condition following the attack, which took place in the early hours of Saturday morning on the Herrenberg housing estate in the city’s south-east.
“I’m shocked!” Thuringia’s interior minister Georg Maier wrote on Twitter. “Right-wing extremist violence in Erfurt again. My thoughts are with the victims.”
A spokesperson for the Erfurt public prosecutor’s office on Sunday said the suspects had been released as there was no flight risk or further grounds for detention, though the investigation is ongoing. “The Nazi thugs from Erfurt are all free again,” Maier tweeted following the decision. “I know I am not entitled to criticise the judiciary. But it is a disaster for the victims and the people of Herrenberg.” (DPA)
The suspects were arrested and briefly detained in connection with what police said was a “xenophobic attack” outside a known meeting place for far-right groups in the capital of the eastern German state of Thuringia.
Police said one of the three victims, a 21-year-old, had temporarily been in a “critical” condition following the attack, which took place in the early hours of Saturday morning on the Herrenberg housing estate in the city’s south-east.
“I’m shocked!” Thuringia’s interior minister Georg Maier wrote on Twitter. “Right-wing extremist violence in Erfurt again. My thoughts are with the victims.”
A spokesperson for the Erfurt public prosecutor’s office on Sunday said the suspects had been released as there was no flight risk or further grounds for detention, though the investigation is ongoing. “The Nazi thugs from Erfurt are all free again,” Maier tweeted following the decision. “I know I am not entitled to criticise the judiciary. But it is a disaster for the victims and the people of Herrenberg.” (DPA)
