It was easy to find Alberto Adriano's body. After his assailants kicked him to death in a Dessau park in the early morning of June 11th, they dumped his lifeless form in a bush, stripped him of his trousers and hung them from the bush like a flag.
Today the murder trial of the three youths accused of killing the Mozambique-born Mr Adriano opens in the eastern city of Dessau, and Germany is watching.
Two of the three accused of his murder are 16, the other 24. None of them is from the city, a fact the mayor has played up in an attempt to salvage Dessau's reputation.
But Dessau, famous as the home of Bauhaus architecture, now finds itself the setting for what could be a key moment in Germany's fight against extreme-right violence.
For a country numbed by now almost daily reports of extreme-right attacks and marches, this is the first real chance for authorities to send a clear signal that Germany will no longer tolerate neo-Nazis.
Mr Adriano lived with Angelika, his German-born wife of 12 years, in an apartment overlooking the park where he died. He moved to East Germany in 1980, worked as a meat-packer and left three young children.
Before the murder of Mr Adriano, such attacks generally merited just one-paragraph news briefs, as if there was an acceptable level of anti-immigrant violence that could be tolerated, but which had not yet been reached.
The bomb attack on 10 immigrants from the former Soviet Union at a Dusseldorf train station earlier this month made violence against immigrants a critical issue, in spite of the fact that police in Dusseldorf still have no motive for the attack, extreme right or otherwise. Newspapers have devoted entire issues to campaigns against extreme-right violence and marches around the country to protest against extreme-right violence are now a weekly occurrence.
Two suspected neo-Nazi websites have been banned and a concerted attempt to ban the extreme-right National Democratic Party (NPD) - originally dismissed by the government - now seems a certainty in the new parliamentary term. The German Chancellor, Mr Gerhard Schroder, has called for the courts to hand down sentences as tough as the law allows for perpetrators of extreme-right violence.
"I hope they get the heaviest sentences, life imprisonment," said Ms Angelika Adriano of her husband's alleged killers.
But the presiding judge may not have that much leeway to impose such sentences. Two of three charged with murder will be judged under Germany's juvenile laws, allowing a maximum 10-year sentence, with a lesser sentence of perhaps seven years more likely.
The backgrounds of the three are typical of those drawn to the neo-Nazi movement.
One of the 16-year-olds has been living on his own since his father died and his mother was institutionalised with mental illness.
His lawyer asked him why he murdered Mr Adriano. Foreigners take our jobs away, foreigners take advantage of us, the youth reportedly replied.
Mr Schroder yesterday began an extensive 12-day tour of small towns in eastern Germany with the aim of denouncing extreme-right violence.