Germany's far right is angry about non-white children on chocolate bars

Photos of Germany's national soccer team on packages of a popular chocolate brand have prompted online outrage among the country's far right because they include childhood pictures of players of migrant origin.

Candymaker Ferrero swapped the usual blond boy on its Kinder bars ahead of this summer's European Championships for photos of German players as children. 

Among them are Jerome Boateng, whose father is from Ghana, and Ilkay Gundogan, whose parents are Turkish.

A regional branch of the anti-Islam PEGIDA movement asked on Facebook "Is this a joke?" 

Other commenters expressed outrage Wednesday and threatened boycotts.

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Tommy Frenck, the owner of a restaurant catering to the far right, said on Facebook the pictures "make it very easy give up chocolate" and urged a boycott "until marketing bosses have come to their senses."

Kinder's manufacturers Ferrero wrote in reply to the ongoing Facebook discussion: "We would like to explicitly distance ourselves from every kind of xenophobia and discrimination. We do not accept or tolerate these in our Facebook communities either."

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