By IRNA,
Berlin : A confidential government report revealed widespread xenophobia among millions of teenagers in Germany, the daily Neue Osnbruecker Zeitung said Thursday.
Almost every German youth said there are too many foreigners living in Germany.
Meanwhile, nearly every 9th grader has Islamophobic tendencies while every 13th teenagers admits to having committed a right-wing motivated criminal act.
Germany has been the scene of a series of brutal neo-Nazi attacks in recent months, especially against foreigners.
German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has repeatedly warned of a growing far-right problem in his country, branding it a “steadily growing danger.”
Schaeuble had voiced concern that the number of far-right crimes between 2005 and 2006 rose from 15,000 to 18,000 offenses, indicating a 9.3 percent increase.
Meanwhile, the number of anti-foreigner attacks hovered at 511 in 2006, showing a 37 percent rise from the previous year.
Political observers link the dramatic rise in the number of far-right crimes to the recent success of neo-Nazi parties in key regional elections in several east German states.
Young neo-Nazis feel also more and more emboldened to commit hate crimes, knowing that police won’t charge them with an offense.
Most of the suspects implicated in far-right crimes are juveniles.
Hate crime experts and sociologists have repeatedly stressed that Germany’s political leadership lacks a clear and effective strategy to combat neo-Nazi and racist crimes.