At the end of May, the Sylt video, in which numerous young people shouted racist Nazi slogans, caused a stir. A Hamburg student was subsequently banned from her university for a limited period. A committee has now unanimously decided on a complete expulsion.

After the racist chants on Sylt, the student who can be seen right at the beginning of the shouting video was immediately banned from the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW). A six-member committee has now voted on expulsion – with a surprising result.

There will be no exmatriculation proceedings against the student who, together with a group of young, wealthy people in the Pony bar on Sylt, chanted “Germany for the Germans” in high spirits at Pentecost. The Exmatriculation Committee came to this unanimously in its final meeting.

When the scandalous video went viral and the young woman was identified as a HAW student, the university at Berliner Tor immediately distanced itself from the unbelievable content and banned the student from the premises until the end of July. This measure is covered by house rules, but expulsion must be decided by a committee. The prerequisite for this is that the university has suffered significant damage through “serious culpable misconduct”.

The committee, consisting of six members, one of whom is a student, has now unanimously spoken out against initiating such proceedings. Exmatriculation is a serious infringement of fundamental rights and, after a detailed examination of the situation, is disproportionate. The ban on entry and the individual study situation of those affected were taken into account.

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The original of this article ““Not proportionate”: Hamburg University decides against expelling Sylt-screamer” comes from Mopo.