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		</div><p>fire has damaged a former hotel that was being converted into a refugee home in Saxony, eastern Germany, as bystanders celebrated, police said.</p>
<p>The incident comes days after a mob in the same state blocked a bus carrying asylum seekers.</p>
<p>The blaze in the roof of the building in Bautzen broke out overnight. Police said no-one was injured, but that a group of people gathered outside, some of them &#8220;commenting with derogatory remarks or unashamed joy&#8221; on the fire.</p>
<p>Police ordered three people to leave the scene because they were hampering firefighters&#8217; work, detaining two of them, whom they described as intoxicated 20-year-old locals.</p>
<p>Authorities believe the fire was caused by arson, but they are investigating every possibility, senior regional police official Bernd Merbitz said.</p>
<p>While the majority of Germans have been welcoming toward refugees, a vocal minority has staged protests in front of refugee homes, especially in the east, and the country last year saw a surge in violence against such lodgings.</p>
<p>Saxony is home to the anti-Islam and anti-immigration group Pegida.<br />
Across the state in Clausnitz, a mob screaming &#8220;We are the people&#8221; and &#8220;Go home&#8221; blocked a bus carrying asylum seekers outside a new refugee home on Thursday.</p>
<p>Police drew criticism in that case for roughly hauling some migrants off the bus into the building, which they insist was necessary to prevent the situation from escalating.</p>
<p>Saxony governor Stanislaw Tillich described the two incidents as &#8220;appalling and shocking&#8221; and described the perpetrators as &#8220;criminals&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is abhorrent and disgusting,&#8221; Mr Tillich said in an interview with the Funke newspaper group. He pledged that authorities will investigate and &#8220;bring everyone responsible to account&#8221;.</p>
<p>Germany&#8217;s justice minister, Heiko Maas, wrote on Twitter that anyone who applauds as buildings burn or who intimidates refugees &#8220;acts abominably and abhorrently&#8221;.</p>
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