Provided by the artist - Eva Leitolf On 29 January 2004 in Thuringia, four young Germans killed a twenty-seven year- old ethnic German immigrant from Russia. The attackers, aged between fourteen and nineteen, punched, kicked and stabbed their victim, and hit him on the head with a hammer. Left-wing groups said it was a racist attack and called a demonstration. The four perpetrators were given youth custody sentences of between three and a half and ten years. The court was not able to find conclusive evidence of a racist motive. The verdict refers to the perpetrators being angered because the victim had urinated on the sofa, kicked the cat several times and thrown a pet rat against the wall.
