Overview
- A multi‑year FGZ consortium study across 23 subprojects with about 13,000 participants found racist discrimination in German authorities at individual, institutional and structural levels, though direct intentional acts were the exception.
- The Interior Ministry placed the report online without a press event, drawing criticism from participating scholars who said the findings were effectively tucked away.
- Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt’s department framed the publication as independent research and asserted that discrimination is the absolute exception, praising most staff for professional conduct.
- Federal Anti‑Discrimination Officer Ferda Ataman criticized the handling and pressed for a public ministerial response and implementation of 17 measures, noting that roughly one fifth of her office’s inquiries involve state institutions.
- Researchers highlighted unequal treatment such as faster procedures for Ukrainian than Syrian refugees and reported uneven cooperation, with Bavaria refusing to participate.