By IRNA
Berlin : A 43-year-old Sri Lankan man was hospitalized with a concussion and multiple bruises after a group of thugs beat him up in an apparent racial attack Wednesday evening in the north central German town of Goslar, news reports said Thursday.
At least 12 assailants punched the victim repeatedly until he remained motionless on the ground.
One of the thugs used a walker to hit the helpless victim.
Last week, a 36-year-old Vietnamese woman and her two-year-old daughter became of victims of anti-foreigner assault in Berlin.
Three unidentified assailants punched the Vietnamese woman in the face and shouted racial slurs at her in Berlin’s eastern Marzahn district, which is considered to be a major stronghold of neo-Nazis in the German capital.
The attackers threw stones at the victim as she and her daughter tried to flee the crime scene.
The Vietnamese woman suffered head and neck injuries, however her daughter remained unharmed.
The same group of attackers are also believed to have robbed the flower store of a 50-year-old Vietnamese who was injured in the ambush.
Germany has been the scene of repeated brutal xenophobic attacks in recent months.
German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned last month of a mounting far-right problem in his country.
He pointed to the far-right problem as a “steadily growing danger.
Schaeuble 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 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 fight neo-Nazi and racist crimes in the wake of a series of brutal racial attacks against foreigners over the past week.