Often claimed to be western Europe's model army, the German military has been accused of numerous acts of neo-Nazi violence in the early 1990's. According to a 1992 report, 3 German soldiers said to be rightwing extremists were suspected of being involved in separate cases of manslaughter. 21 other German soldiers had taken part in racist brawls that year. On March 19, 1992, a homeless man mistaken for a Gypsy was thrown into a harbour and drowned after refusing to give the Hitler salute to a German soldier in Flensburg, Germany.