A young politician serving as treasurer in the Junge Union, which is the youth wing of the Christian Democrats (CDU), has been brutally beaten by a group of migrant perpetrators and threatened with a knife in the schoolyard of Lüneburg-Kaltenmoor near Hamburg, according to media reports.
The 24-year-old Simon Schmidt said he was attacked Monday evening, telling Bild that he was lured into a trap by young migrants who beat him because he is gay.
“It was a homophobic attack,” Schmidt is quoted as saying. “I had arranged to meet a man on a dating app. The meeting point was an ambush.”
He described eight youths jumping him in the schoolyard.
“A horde of seven or eight migrants from Syria or Afghanistan came out from behind bushes and attacked me with fists and kicks,” he told Bild. He added that they screamed slurs at him based on his homosexuality.
🇩🇪‼️ "I will beat you till you die… Look at your pig skin."
A migrant makes sexist, racist, and anti-LGBT remarks against young women in the Berlin train system near the Tempelhof stop. pic.twitter.com/LuJZCcrTsT
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) November 19, 2024“When I was lying on the ground, one of the attackers pulled out a black pocket knife. Another shouted: We’ll stab you! A passerby came to help. The gang ran away,” he added.
Due to the physical confrontation, he suffered serious injuries and was treated at Hamburg-Eppendorf University Hospital and released on Tuesday. He will have to undergo surgery on his cheekbone before Christmas.
Lower Saxony police are investigating the case, which occurred on the school grounds of the Lüneburg district.
NEW: 🇩🇪 Foreigners commit 59% of all sexual crimes at German trains and train stations, the latest crime data shows.
Sexual violence crimes have doubled between 2019 and 2024.
Foreigners are 15% of Germany's population.
(Source: German Federal Police) pic.twitter.com/WQpbyap6Xm
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) November 21, 2024“During the physical altercation, the man was injured in the face. He was taken to hospital in an ambulance. The investigation into the background is ongoing,” wrote the police in a statement.
Schmidt’s colleagues in the youth organization have condemned the incident in a press release.
In recent years, there has been a major issue with LGBT groups and migrants from certain countries where homosexuality is persecuted and often illegal.
“Germany has become more homophobic, misogynistic and violent due to irregular migration,” said CDU politician Jens Spahn, who is gay. In September this year, he said he supported Kevin Kühnert (SPD), who had been accused of racism within the party after making similar statements.
Kühnert got in hot water for commenting on an opinion piece written by Green Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir, who wrote that migrants were sexually harassing his daughter in Berlin.
🇩🇪‼️ German Green Party Agricultural Minister Cem Özdemir writes that his daughter is being sexually harassed by migrants:
"When she is out and about in the city, she or her friends are often unpleasantly stared at or sexualized by men with a migrant background." pic.twitter.com/PqDE65A4Jz
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) September 30, 2024“I’m not a woman, but as a gay man I can guess what he means,” Kühnert told Spiegel. “And so, in my experience, homophobic comments are made more often in groups of men who are perceived as Muslim than one would otherwise hear on the street.”
There have ben countless homophobic attacks in Germany in recent years. Two examples include in 2022, when men of “southern origin” attacked a gay pride parade and set a pride flag on fire. In another instance, a Chechen migrant beat a transgender man to death at a gay pride parade in Münster.
