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Anti-Semitic songs after concentration camp visit: Students threaten to take measures to school referral

2019-11-05T19:01:53.932Z


The police are investigating incitement, and the school is also considering serious consequences: The fact that three students played anti-Semitic songs after visiting the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial site will have consequences.



Following a suspected anti-Semitic incident on a study trip to the former Buchenwald concentration camp, the three suspected adolescents are also threatened with school-law consequences.

It is thought both about pedagogical measures as well as about corrective measures, said a spokesman for the responsible school office. This could be the 14-year-olds, against which also the police identified, are expelled in the worst case of the school.

The three students are said to have played anti-Semitic songs and sung along on the return trip from visiting the memorial in Thuringia. The school administration then reported the incident to the police. The initiated investigation on suspicion of sedition.

"The case is worked up on different levels at school," confirmed the head of the school in the mid-Green Mountain, Jörg Keller. The school has been awarded several times in the past for their work in the prevention of extremism, communicated the district Giessen.

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There had been no abnormalities when visiting the students in the concentration camp memorial, said the spokesman of the memorial foundation on Tuesday. The incident is an absolute exception. After school visits there are usually evaluation interviews with the respective responsible persons in the schools, according to the speaker. However, the memorial site has not yet been informed of similar occurrences.

Source: spiegel

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