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Thursday 21 May 2015 - 12:30 Makkah mean time-3-8-1436
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Hanover, Germany (IINA) - Human rights groups have widely condemned Hanover police, after a whatsapp video showed German officer forcing a Muslim immigrant to eat rotten pork from the floor for entertainment, OnIslam reported.
Human rights group Pro Asyl condemned the incidents for their “appalling level of racism and inhumanity” and demanded a probe into how many “accomplices in police uniform” knew of the violence, AFP reported on Tuesday.
The shocking incidents became known after Hamburg-based German radio channel Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) aired a report detailing two incidents of immigrant’s abuse in Hanover police station.
"We received a complaint last week that referred to assaults in a police department of the federal police," Attorney-General Thomas Klinge told NDR, Russia Today reported.
Police has been sent to search the home and workstation of at least one accused officer who was later suspended.
The suspended officer shared a whatsapp video in which he is seen choking an Afghan asylum seeker and forcing a Moroccan Muslim to eat rotten pork from the floor.
The shared video went viral with the officer’s colleagues who boasted that he had humiliated Muslims at least twice.
The NDR investigations found messages exchanged between police officers on Whatsapp where an officer wrote: "I knocked him away. An Afghan. With prohibited entry (to Germany). I stuck my finger in his nose. And he choked. It was funny. And I dragged him by the foot shackles through the station. It was great. He squealed like a pig. It was a gift from Allah."
The NDR report comes amid concern that hostility towards asylum seekers in Germany is only growing.
It followed a UN report published earlier this month which warned from growing support for racist and Islamophobic movements in Germany.
It is noteworthy that the UN recently urged the government to take stronger measures against racist violence and discrimination.
Germany is believed to be home to nearly 4 million Muslims, including 220,000 in Berlin alone. Turks make up an estimated two thirds of the Muslim minority.
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