Amadeu Antonio Kiowa was a contract worker from Angola who lived in Eberswalde in the state of Brandenburg.  In the night of November 25th, 1990, a group of about 50 neo-Nazi youths carrying baseball bats went through the city on a “hunt” for blacks.  They found and assaulted three black men at a bar: two Mozambicans were severely injured but escaped, while the 28-year old Amadeu Antonio Kiowa fell into a coma from which he did not recover.  He died two weeks later.

Amadeu Antonio Kiowa was one of the first fatalities of racist violence following German reunification.  Five of the young culprits were convictedby the court in Frankfurt/Oder and received sentences ranging from probation to at most four years in prison.  It was never established who dealt the fatal blow.  Amadeu Antonio Jr. never got to know his father: he came into the world a few weeks after Amadeu Antonio Kiowa's death.  Today he lives with his mother and his three siblings in the state of Brandenburg.

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