By IRNA
Berlin : A female Afghan asylum seeker was injured in an anti-foreigner attack in the east German city of Chemnitz on Sunday, news reports said.
A five-member group shouted initially racial insults at the 40- year-old woman at a local culture center and threw her down the stairs in front of the victim’s children and her female companion.
The victim suffered abrasions on her body.
This was the fifth xenophobic attack in Germany in slightly more than a week.
The latest wave of neo-Nazi assaults has also triggered a debate in Germany to outlaw the neo-Nazi party, the National Democratic Party (NPD).
Over the weekend, the Vice-President of the European Commission Franco Frattini called for banning of the German neo-Nazi party.
Talking with the Sunday news paper Bild am Sonntag, Frattini said, “I would clearly and explicitly welcome it, if Germany does ban the NPD one day.”
Frattini stressed that Germany has been among those European Union countries with the biggest right-wing extremist problems.
He expressed special concern over the state of right-wing extremism in several countries notably, Germany, France, Belgium, Denmark and Italy.
The 50-year-old EU official urged those five countries to step up their campaign against right-wing extremism, especially in the sphere of preventive measures.
Neo-Nazis are “a cancer tumor for democratic countries like Germany”, said Frattini.
“They are a real threat for our democracy,” he added.
Frattini lamented also “growing xenophobia and right-wing extremism in Europe”.
The German government is wary of a new legal bid to bar the NPD after the country’s highest court in 2003 blocked a previous attempt to ban the neo-Nazi party.
It refused to hear the case because the government cited statements by party members who turned out to be paid informers for state authorities.