For four nights in August 1992, a mob of rioters and right-wing extremists attacked a central reception center for asylum-seekers and a shelter for Vietnamese workers in the Lichtenhagen district of Rostock, a city of the former East Germany. Local onlookers applauded, while the police were completely overwhelmed, and at one stage forced to retreat.
“What happened in Rostock is a disgrace for our country. Politicians bear a great deal of responsibility for this disgrace,” President Frank-Walter Steinmeier told a crowd gathered in the northern city of Rostock on Thursday.
The president blamed all of Germany’s political parties for using rhetoric that was laced with resentment in the early 1990s. And, after the attack, the country waited a long time for authorities to offer a clear condemnation of the riots, he added.
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