The Saarland police have revised their statements regarding an alleged xenophobic attack in Saarlouis. The incident, in which an unknown person is said to have set a sheepdog on a Syrian man, “did not actually happen”, the police headquarters told the newspaper Welt. The investigation is now focussed on the person who filed the complaint. There is a “suspicion of faking a criminal offence”. The authorities did not want to give any further details “for tactical investigative reasons”.
In June, the police reported that a 28-year-old Syrian had been seriously injured in a dog attack in Saarlouis and that a “xenophobic motive” could not be ruled out. The authorities are looking for the unknown perpetrator and are asking the public for information.
In recent decades, reports of alleged right-wing extremist attacks have repeatedly turned out to be false. In 2006, for example, the killing of Ermyas Mulugeta, who was of Ethiopian origin, was initially categorised as a racist murder. Subsequent investigations established that the offence had a non-political background.
In 2007, the ” chase of Mügeln” led to a similar misjudgement. In 2018, the first reports of ” manhunts” in Chemnitz subsequently turned out to be false.
Hund auf Syrer gehetzt? Polizei ermittelt wegen vorgetäuschter Straftat (jungefreiheit.de)