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German Bundesbank to fire ‘racist’ banker
The Bundesbank, Germany’s central bank, has called on to the country’s presdient to fire one of its own board members after called immigrants unproductive and affirming that the Jews had a special “gene”.
The bank had to turn to the country’s president as it does not have the right to dismiss the banker itself.
“The board of the Bundesbank decided unanimously today to ask the president of the republic to dismiss Dr Thilo Sarrazin as a member of the board,” the bank said.
In his new book, “Germany Does Itself In’, Sarrazin said that Muslim immigration and a hight birth rate among Turkish immigrants would end up impoverishing Europe’s biggest economy.
“All Jews share a certain gene,” he told a newspaper, “a property which was shared by the Basques”. The comments have branded him as racist and anti-Semitic.
In October last year, Sarrazin had said that Turks were “conquering Germany in exactly the same way the Kosovars conquered Kosovo: with a higher birth rate.”
A survey published by the weekly Die Zeit two years ago showed that more than half of residents of Turkish origin feel unwelcome in Germany.
German weekly newspaper Die Zeit said that Sarrazin "is in the process of becoming a national hero, exclusion from the Bundesbank board or the SPD could even confer on him the status of martyr."
