Service for victim of racism

Sebnitz - The Saxony Premier, Mr Kurt Biedenkopf, and 200 people took part in a memorial service in the eastern town of Sebnitz…

Sebnitz - The Saxony Premier, Mr Kurt Biedenkopf, and 200 people took part in a memorial service in the eastern town of Sebnitz yesterday for a six-year-old German-Iraqi boy drowned in a suspected racist killing.

Police have detained three men accused of drugging and drowning the boy, Joseph Abdullah, in a public swimming pool in 1997.

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