Three men attack Lankan restaurant in Germany
Three drunken neo-Nazis were arrested after storming a Sri Lankan
restaurant and injuring the owner in a rural town in the canton of Bern
over the weekend.
The incident occurred on Saturday night in Hutwil, a town of 4,700
people in the lower Emmental region, according to a report issued by the
cantonal police. The young men, with shaved heads and dressed in
military gear, were heard shouting “sieg Heil, sieg Heil” and making
Nazi salutes as they marched around the town, according to the Police
and media reports.
One of the men demolished a kebab stand at the restaurant and police
were contacted around 8pm about three right-wing extremists ready to
attack the owner.
“It must be assumed that according to initial investigations the
three men had attacked the Sri Lankan,” a report from the regional
prosecutor of Emmental-Oberaargau said.
A passerby intervened but the owner was slightly injured, the report
said. The 20 Minuten newspaper identified the owner as Ibrahim Ekemen,
34.
In an online report, the newspaper said the men threatened to kill
the restaurant owner “the next time”.
The attackers also destroyed a chair and damaged a table, the
newspaper said. Police identified the men as coming from the cantons of
Bern, Fribourg and Zurich.
The regional prosecutor said they were all intoxicated, with one man
testing three milligrams per millilitre on a blood alcohol test, six
times the legal limit for driving.
Courtesy: TheLocal.ch
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