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Panorama 3: Foreigners out! Smear campaign against home for refugees
Prize-winner 2013
European CIVIS Television Prize – magazines
| Authors: | Anna Orth, Anne Ruprecht, Djamila Benkhelouf |
| Editorial: | Maike Rudolph, Jochen Becker |
Content
24 refugees from Iran, Afghanistan and Turkey move into a newly opened home in Wolgast Nord. They are the first of 200. The refugees are met with rejection, social envy and open hate from people in the neighbourhood. Local residents predict that “the block will burn”. The responsible district administration defends its decision to accommodate the refugees in a social “hot-spot”. Parallels are drawn to the incidents in Rostock-Lichtenhagen: there 20 years ago a right-wing mob threw incendiary devices at a home for applicants for political asylum.
Excerpt from the jury’s statement
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