On suspicion of sedition in a classroom the police investigates students of a high school in the Bavarian Grafing. In a ninth grade chat, racist comments and photos of anti-constitutional symbols had been posted, a police spokesman said. "We now have to see who the author of this message was and who has spread this message despite recognizable problems."
Two students turned to their teacher after the autumn break and a father informed the police. This first secured the chat history on the provided mobile phones. On it they found not only swastika pictures and inhumane sayings over gas chambers, but also the anti-Semitic text of a song popular among right-wing extremists.
"We will take action against it very energetically"
The school addressed a letter in clear words to all parents. "We think this is a very questionable content and will be very energetic against it," said Deputy Director Markus Zimmermann. But there are only a few students in the focus of the investigators - the greater part have also positioned themselves clearly in the chat against the utterances.
Most recently, an incident on a school trip to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp Memorial triggered a nationwide debate about dealing with misanthropic statements by students. Several students are said to have played anti-Semitic songs in the bus after a visit to the memorial site near Weimar Buchenwald and sung the text along.
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The Anti-Semitism Commissioner of the Federal Government then called for a reporting obligation for schools in such incidents. The case shows how the brutalization of society could affect the rise of anti-Semitism, Felix Klein told the newspaper "Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung".
Klein welcomed the step taken by the school from Grünberg in Hesse to report the incident to the police. "Degrading and insulting Jews is not tolerated in Germany - I wish that the young people learned this lesson from the consistent response of the school."
