European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 15, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday september 15, 1994 world the stars and stripes Page 11 German police allegedly beat foreigners Hamburg Germany a Twenty seven police officers were suspended tuesday and could face Crimi Nal charges Over allegations that they beat jailed for Eigners. Some have been accused of Neo nazi sympathies Are accusations that some among them travel in rightist extremist circles said City Justice official Dirk Reimers. Several scandals have erupted Over alleged police brutality against foreigners in Germany since the coun try s reunification in 1990, but the one unfolding i Hamburg Germany s second largest City is the wors sofar. The City s Justice minister Klaus Hadtrath said that in Light of new allegations he was reopening 120 investigations into police brutality at the precinct where All 27 officers worked the cases Date Back to 1988. An last week Hamburg news Media disclosed that two Drunken officers had beaten up an african in january because he was wearing an anti nazi sticker. The City s no. 1 police official Werner Hackmann resigned monday after a police officer complained in a memo that some of his colleagues had beaten 11 for Eigners in the cellar of a lockup near the train station. Hackmann said police battering of foreigners had grown to alarming proportions in Hamburg a North sea port that claims a cosmopolitan openness to people from other lands. He claimed he repeatedly attempted to put an end to the abuse but had met with a Wall of silence. When the memo was put of my desk i asked myself whether i should let myself suffer through this any longer and whether it might be better to resign to Send out a signal that wakes up the people Hackmann told the Hamburg Morgen Post newspaper. I am deeply ashamed that attacks by police officer against foreigners have taken on a dimension that i never believed possible he was quoted As saying. A statement from City authorities said 27 officers from the Mitte 1 precinct had been suspended for suspected mistreatment of foreigners. The officers Are being investigated and May be charged with wrongful arrest causing bodily injury and other counts the City s Interior ministry said. A ministry spokeswoman said beatings by the 27 offi cers Are believed to have All occurred this year Over a period of months. The alleged victims were being held on charges of being in Germany illegally Possession of drugs and other counts she said. Vladivostok Russia Russia and Japan sent patrol and Rescue ships to sea wednesday As the two nations launched their first joint maritime Rescue exercise a news Agency reported. The exercise might help ease the frictions Between Moscow and Tokyo Over alleged poaching. Russia accuses Japa Nese and other fishermen of frequently violating its territorial Waters and has launched a special operation this year to prevent poaching. . Neo nazi Mannheim Germany a a american Neo nazi who claims the holocaust was a hoax failed to show up wednesday at his trial for slander and inciting racial hatred. Fred Leuchter 51, of Maiden mass.,fled Germany after being briefly arrested in october. The exercise held in the Peter the great Bay near Vladivostok a russian port on the sea of Japan involves rus Sian Rescue and cargo ships As Well As the a age Rescue vessel belonging to mos cow s Pacific Fleet. Japan sent the Heli copter carrying Tsu Garu patrol ship of its maritime Security Agency the itar Tass news Agency reported. The role of those in distress was played by sailors of the Pacific Fleet and employees of civil Ian Rescue services it said. The exercise an arrest warrant had been issued fora speech he gave at a november 1991 rally with German extreme rightist Gunter Deckert. Leuchter a maker of electric chairs and lethal injection de vices claimed the Gas Chambers were never used to kill jews. Deckert who translated the speech was Given a one Maneu vers supposed to improve coordination be tween the two countries Rescue agencies was monitored by russian and japanese helicopters and a russian air plane. Most poaching incidents occur in an other area the Rich fishing Waters near the Kuril islands seized by the soviet Union at the end of world War ii. The dispute Over the islands has pre vented the two nations from signing a treaty officially ending their wartime hostilities. " f. In year suspended sentence and fined$6,000 in june. 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