Black World Cup fans 'will not get out alive'

 

18:06pm 17th May 2006

Black soccer fans attending the World Cup are risking their lives if they stray into parts of Germany where neo-Nazi attacks are on the rise, an anti-racism campaigner said today.

Supporters should avoid parts of the eastern German state of Brandenburg, said Uwe-Karsten Heye, head of anti-racist organisation "Gesicht zeigen" ("Show face"), referring to the former communist state which surrounds Berlin.

"There are small and medium-sized towns in Brandenburg and other places where I would recommend that nobody with a different skin colour go," Heye, a former government spokesman, told radio station Deutschlandradio Kultur. "They would possibly not leave there alive." Thousands of foreign fans will travel to Germany for the tournament, which begins on June 9 and runs for a month.

A German-Ethiopian man was seriously injured in what police suspect was a racially motivated attack in the Brandenburg capital of Potsdam last month. Around 100 people have been killed in far-right violence since German reunification in 1990. The attacks have often been directed at dark-skinned foreigners and most have occurred in the ex-communist east.

Well...actually I think it is sad that there should be so called "No-go-areas"....

 

I have one question:

 

How is the situation in other countries?

Oh btw....I just saw something about that in the news on TV.....some politicans are critizising this man....because it was too much...and the man went "a step back"....he said he didn't want to limit it only on one area...on one special area...because it can happen everywhere...although this is a "danger zone" in my opinion...but I think there won't be any "No-go areas"....

Oh btw....I just saw something about that in the news on TV.....some politicans are critizising this man....because it was too much...and the man went "a step back"....he said he didn't want to limit it only on one area...on one special area...because it can happen everywhere...although this is a "danger zone" in my opinion...but I think there won't be any "No-go areas"....

 

Well I heard there are already"no-go areas" in some cities, but for different reasons............................... :stunned:

^Hmmm...I don't know about that....

But I think if they make such areas it is ridiculous...

^Well they don't "make" them - they just kind of "happen"!!:rolleyes:

^hehe well....you are right on the one hand....

but on the other this man wants them to exist....so I guess there will be signs which say "No-go area" or something like that!

^hehe well....you are right on the one hand....

but on the other this man wants them to exist....so I guess there will be signs which say "No-go area" or something like that!

 

So what would that be in German??

What do you mean?

"No Go Area"!!

Well.....they call it "No-Go-Area"!

It's denglisch!

^No - then it would be something like: "Nein Go Area"!!:P

^Hahah....but this would be bad german....I think the "Nazis" would leave this area then because it is no real german!

^Hahah....but this would be bad german....I think the "Nazis" would leave this area then because it is no real german!

 

In that case, perhaps it would be a good idea!!:cool:

:thinking:

well but they won't disappear then....they only would go to other areas!

:thinking:

well but they won't disappear then....they only would go to other areas!

 

 

Like your Kaff??:stunned:

Nooo....definitely not.....I've mever seen a racist here...in my village...

Nooo....definitely not.....I've mever seen a racist here...in my village...

 

How would you know if someone was a racist just by looking at them??:confused:

In my village everybody knows each other...therefore I know that!Nobody is anonymous...if there was a racist everybody would know that!

In my village everybody knows each other...therefore I know that!Nobody is anonymous...if there was a racist everybody would know that!

 

They might be closet racists!!:rolleyes: