Local councillors said they were 'shocked and sickened' by the abuse

Authorities in Germany have expressed their 'shame and disgust' after neo-Nazi neighbours of a refugee home goaded a depressed migrant into jumping to his death.

The 17-year-old Somalian youth perched on the window of his accommodation centre in the town of Schmoelln was filmed, jeered and encouraged to 'end it all now!' by the right-wingers celebrated his doom.

When police officers arrived at the scene on Friday afternoon the youngster was in tears and close to the edge of the windowsill outside his fifth floor room.

A gang of German neo Nazis goaded a Somali asylum seeker to jump to his death from this tower block in Schmoelln, eastern Germany despite police trying to talk him down safely

A number of racists filmed the youngster as he plunged to his death from the window's ledge

For an hour negotiators tried to coax him back inside. But all the while neo-Nazi neighbours were booing, catcalling and encouraging him to jump 'One less parasite then!' yelled one racist. 'Go on, jump!' yelled others as the boy shivered in fear.

All attempts to get him back in failed and he jumped to his death with the mobile phone cameras of the racists filming his descent.

'We are totally shocked and disgusted by the events and cannot believe what happened,' said the deputy leader of the council Matthias Bergmann.

Soon after his death the photos of his suicide appeared on social networking sites.

Firemen had spread a safety mattress beneath his window but the boy managed to avoid it and land on the pavement where he died instantly from massive internal injuries.

He had come to Germany in March this year after fleeing from Somalia to Sudan and then crossing the Mediterranean on a people smuggling boat.

He was categorized as having mental problems as a result of the ordeal he had undergone in his homeland and in the journey to get to Europe.

The youngster, who had been receiving psychiatric treatment was threatening to kill himself after going on a rampage at the centre for unaccompanied minors in Schmoelln, pictured

Police were called to the centre for unaccompanied minors after he went on a vandalism rampage on Friday, but he was already on the windowsill and threatening to kill himself by the time they arrived.

Sven Schrade, the local mayor, said he heard that people had shouted for the youngster to jump. 'One can only condemn such sentiments,' he said. 'Before he was a refugee or a Somalian, he was a human being.'

Other town officials spoke of their 'shame and disgust' and the local public prosecutor has opened an official enquiry into the neighbours who encouraged him to die.