Radical leftwing groups are currently on a crusade against German flags — displayed around the country in support of the German football team — to fight nationalism and stirring “Nazi-emotions” in the Germans. The irony of the battle is that most victims whose flags are destroyed or burnt are of Turkish or Arab background.
In Berlin, shop owner Ibrahim Bassal displayed a massive German flag reaching from the fifth floor nearly down to street level. Autonomists came to his shop and urged him to take it down, but he says: “He have been living and working in Germany for years, our kids are born here. What’s the problem? Of course we support Germany. What does that have to do with the Nazis?”
