Merkel's government demands police lie about refugee violence

A fight in a refugee shelter in Suhl, in the eastern state of Thuringia, left 11 people hurt. Police arrested 15 brawlers in the aftermath.
Are the refugee violence statistics sugar-coated?
An LKA (State Criminal Office) official told how the police downplay refugee crime - for the "civil peace". "It is not a lie, nothing is covered up, but there are things deliberately omitted," he says.
Hannover. The truth has many facets. Sometimes it can be terrible. Before his eyes, a refugee has struck another with a brutal headbutt, leaving the skull bloody. Markus Schwarz is an official of the state criminal police. He did not see the violence coming. Just a few days ago he had talked to the refugees in a relaxed way, about Islam, about German customs and about prophets in Christianity and Islam. It had seemed a very friendly atmosphere; the policeman and the university-educated Syrians had been curious to know about the other's different world. The conflict arose "out of nothing," says Schwarz. In the police report later, it said there was a dispute in an initial reception center "with a non-serious injury".











