Racial slur army instructor still on duty

A GERMAN army instructor who ordered a soldier to envision himself facing hostile blacks in New York while firing his machine gun is still on duty, the army said yesterday.

A video of the army instructor telling the soldier to shoot and yell obscenities while thinking of African-Americans in the Bronx aired on German national television over the weekend, and prompted calls for an apology by the New York City borough’s president.

When asked if the army would apologise, spokesman Florian Naggies said: “The German Army takes the incident very seriously and is interested in quickly resolving it.”