Since the fall of the Berlin wall ten years ago, Germany has suffered from rightist violence, and more recently, attacks against immigrants have increased. On July 27th Neo-nazi skinheads bombed Dusseldorf, wounding nine immigrants. The most violence incident occurred in the eastern town of Eisenach, where Neo-Nazis attacked African asylum seekers. In the last decade, over 100 people have been killed in Germany as a result of xenophobic assaults. According to a New York Times report, the violence is partly due to high unemployment in eastern Berlin and the reluctance of Germans to adopt multiculturalism. The relatively new concept of a multicultural Germany is a policy priority of the government, which is attempting to make the country a “land of immigration.”
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