Hate case

Xanthi 2022: A Minority Teenager Attached

14.09.2024  |  Greece  |  Submitted by: Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF)

 

Place, Country                                   Xanthi, Greece  

Year                                                       2022

Affected group/minority              Turkish community in Western Thrace

Perpetrator                                       A group of 20 young people

Type of case                                       Hate crime

Type of act                                          Attack on a person

Media:                                                 Direct physical aggression

Reactions:                                           The members and representatives of civil society organisations of the Turkish

                                                             community in Western Thrace widely condemned the act 

 

Brief description:                            

On 26 August 2022, a 16-year-old youth belonging to the Turkish community in Western Thrace was attacked by a group of about 20 young people. The 16-year-old Turkish youth was so severely beaten up by the group that he needed to be hospitalized.

 Reportedly, the assailants hit the Turkish youth at the same time by shouting ‘‘Dirty Turk, next time we will kill you’’ and cursed him. The Turkish youth, who had suffered many injuries on his body, was taken to the State Hospital of Xanhti by his mother after the attack and discharged after treatment.

 

More information on the case can be obtained through the links:

https://www.milletnews.com/western-thrace/turkish-teenager-beaten-horribly-by-racist-greek-gangsters

https://www.abttf.org/haberler-detay.php?id=6716&kid=104&lang=en

 

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