Muslim girls 'racially abused' on Polish Holocaust trip
Several German pupils say they were racially abused in Poland while on a trip to study the Holocaust, German broadcaster Deutschlandfunk reports. The group, led by their teacher Sabeth Schmidthals, counted 20 high school students, the majority of them Muslims, the broadcaster said.
"These are very active students," Schmidthals told Deutschlandfunk. "They go against the popular belief that youngsters or Muslims students are not interested in this topic." "I was spat on by a man in the street who then ran away", Sheida Nur, one of the girls in the group, told German radio. She and three other girls wearing hijab were the main target of racial slurs and threats. Nur also said that police officers were idly standing by and did not offer protection during the abuse.
Polish police, responding to a request from the BBC, said that there was no complaint filed in connection with these incidents and that review of security footage showed "no incidents involving foreigners". The Polish prosecutor's office told the BBC that the number of hate crimes against Muslims had doubled from 2015 to 2016. Poland's conservative government refuses to take in Muslim refugees claiming they would not fit in a majority Christian Catholic society.
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