Joshi asks Germany to ensure safety

“The government should take good care of the safety of people who come here (Germany),” Joshi said when asked for his reaction to the incident of an Indian researcher being beaten up at Leipzig in Saxony in eastern Germany last week. He said he was not aware of the motive behind the incident.

He made the comment on the German government’s responsibility when a reporter pointed out to him that the researcher was apparently targeted because he was “an Indian”.

The Indian researcher, whose name has been withheld, was beaten up by three suspects on June 12 in apparent anti-foreigner violence in eastern Germany.