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Eva Leitolf
Municipal Park, Dessau
[German Images - Looking for Evidence 2006-2008]
2007
C-print
66.5 x 53.5 cm (image) 81 x 69 cm (sheet)
Provided by the artist - Eva Leitolf
LL/37741
A Mozambican man who had come to East Germany in 1980 as a migrant worker was assaulted during the night of 10-11 June 2000 by three drunk men aged sixteen, seventeen and twenty-five. After being kicked on the ground, the victim was dragged naked through the park and his clothes were hung in the branches of nearby trees. He died three days later in hospital. During the trial it transpired that just four days before the incident the same perpetrators had assaulted another black man. All three had extreme right-wing affiliations and said that the crime had been motivated by 'hate of foreigners'. The oldest was sentenced to life imprisonment, while the others each received nine years youth custody. The memorial set up at the scene of the crime has been repeatedly desecrated.
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