Police say German held Syrian in headlock, set dogs on him
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Police say a 23-year-old German man is being investigated for letting two attack dogs loose on a Syrian man in a park in the eastern town of Magdeburg.
The suspect is alleged to have racially abused the 29-year-old Syrian, who was in the park with his family on Sunday afternoon. When the victim tried to protect his family, the assailant put him in a headlock while the dogs attacked the Syrian.
In a statement Monday, police said they have identified the suspect and seized his dogs. The victim is being treated in hospital for bite wounds.
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Racist attacks in Germany have increased since the arrival in 2015 of hundreds of thousands of refugees, many of them fleeing conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.