Early Christmas morning, police said, a group of young people tried to set fire to a sleeping homeless man in a Berlin subway station. Passersby extinguished the flames before the man was hurt. Surveillance video remains a rarity in Germany, where past experiences with dictatorships, both Nazi and Communist, have sown a deep suspicion of government police powers and any state intrusions into people’s privacy.
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