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164 arrested in Rostock. 17 still held - disproportionately foreign. Of the 164 arrested, 16 were foreign, yet the xenophobes from the media and even organizers of the demo are blaming them for the violence.

The German media is claiming that the riots which took place yesterday in Rostock were caused by "foreign anarchists". (Not of course by their local gestapo.)

It is hard to look through the media prism and be sure of what was actually said to the press, but one thing looks to be certain: ATTAC in Germany is headed by a rat named Werner Ratz.

While it seems clear that much of the violence yesterday in Rostock was provoked by police tactics, such as splitting the demonstrators into separate groups, thus creating a riot zone, Ratz's group not only distanced themselves from the violence (which each has the right to do), but blamed anarchists for starting it. What's worse, it seems that Ratz may be behind the crappy tendency now seem in the German press to blame foreign anarchists for all the violence.

"...in any case, the behavior of many anarchists, in the way they continually chased the police, was atypical for German groups." Ratz said during a talk in which the idea that foreigners were responsible for the trouble looks to have spread around.

Now it seems that foreign people were disproportionately kept to be charged after arrests were made yesterday.

We know that people from a number of countries are being charged while most of the large number of arrested locals were let go. The arrested include a person from Poland and people from Austria, Belgian, Mexico, Ukraine, Denmark, Greece, Bulgaria, France, Japan, Russia, Spain and Sweden. At least 164 persons were arrested in Rostock; 17 are being held and will be charged.