The public prosecutor's office in Göttingen (central Germany) is investigating an assault suffered by a 10-year-old Ukrainian boy, allegedly for speaking Ukrainian, which is suspected to be politically motivated.
As reported by the institution in a statement, the events occurred on August 26 in the town of Einbeck, in the Lower Saxony region, when a group of Ukrainian children were approached by an unknown person who made them ugly, in Russian, that they were speaking ukrainian. The individual, who has not yet been identified, allegedly urged them to speak Russian and told them that Ukraine had started the war in that country.
He then pulled a girl by the hair and threw a boy over the railing of a bridge they were on, so that the boy struck first against an iron structure and then fell into the canal below, suffering head and foot injuries.
The boy had to receive hospital treatment but has already been discharged, according to German media. Police are looking for the unknown man, between 40 and 45 years old, who according to the prosecution is suspected of an attempted murder.
