DPA
June 13, 2006

The director of German TV station NDR has filed a letter of complaint with China’s ambassador to Germany over the attack on Three Gorges migrant Fu Xiancai, writing: ‘This overshadows our intention to intensify our coverage of the Olympic Games 2008.’

Beijing: The director of German television station NDR on Tuesday filed a letter of complaint with China’s ambassador to Germany over the recent attack on a Chinese activist. In the letter, NDR director Jobst Plog asked Ambassador Ma Canrong to "initiate anything in your power to provide severely injured Fu Xiancai with any necessary and possible medical care." … He wrote the assault appeared to be related to an interview with Fu about the controversial Three-Gorges dam project broadcast in a German television news magazine on May 19. … As the principal television station representing German television pool ARD during the Olympic Games 2008 in China, it was even more tragic for NDR "that a Chinese citizen was severly injured just because he made reasonable comments in an ARD program," Plog wrote. "This overshadows our intention to intensify our coverage of the Olympic Games 2008," Plog added.