Germany has also suffered a wave of anti-Semitic and xenophobic attacks over the past year.
Between 2000 and March 2008 at least 67 people died in what were identified as xenophobic attacks.
Grassroots social movements came out strongly against the 2008 xenophobic attacks calling them pogroms promoted by government and political parties.
In 1991, for example, a xenophobic attack took place on a hostel containing refugees.
In the last decade, more than 100 people have been killed in Germany in xenophobic attacks.
Sad stories of xenophobic attacks have been in our newspapers.
These riots sparked the xenophobic attacks of 2008.
However, this also applies to verbal, xenophobic attacks by the extreme right in Europe on migrant fellow citizens.
We must keep watch for racist and xenophobic attacks.
Foreign nationals on the run from xenophobic attacks.