The human rights organization in Germany received about 800 complaints from Russian-speaking residents of Germany 01:52

The Association for the Prevention of Discrimination and Isolation Against Russian-Germans and Russian-Speaking Citizens (VADAR) in Germany has received nearly 800 complaints from Russian-speaking residents of Germany in the past five months. This is specified Telegramorganizational channel.

“Since the founding of the community, social networks, official mail, and the VADAR chatbot have received 789 requests,” the message says.

VADAR said the organization’s lawyers found clear signs of discrimination and Russian hostility towards Russian-speaking residents in Germany in more than 10% of applications.

As the organization noted, for five months human rights activists had to defend the public because of the most gruesome realities of Russian hostility in Germany. The main work is carried out with German law enforcement and judicial authorities, and assistance is provided to citizens who have been discriminated against and persecuted. According to the report, six cases are being examined by the court, two cases are being examined by the appellate authority, in ten cases the initiation of a criminal case has been appealed.

More than 160 citizens received advice, including legal advice, and in half of these cases, clear signs of discrimination were seen in half of those cases where legal aid was provided by legal and law enforcement agencies. As human rights activists have highlighted, many cases have been resolved out of court, including eviction, termination of employment contracts, breach of privacy, child abuse in educational institutions, and the facts of offensive anti-Russian statements.

In addition, human rights activists conduct targeted explanatory work with employers, landlords and heads of educational institutions on the inadmissibility of discrimination, insults and threats against Russian-speaking citizens of Germany.

VADAR added that it has sent eight parliamentary inquiries to ministries, the prosecution, the government, the federal government’s human rights commissioner and other agencies, as well as eight statements against the criminal police, particularly the head of the Christian Democratic Union. Stefan Ewers, who provoked a riot in Berlin against the participants of the “For Russia” rally.

At the Human Rights Council, previously chaired by the President of the Russian Federation declarationThe expulsion of a singer with dual citizenship of Russia and Finland from the vocal competition The Voice of Finland is a manifestation of Russian hostility.