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Refugee: ‘I no longer feel secure’ in Germany
“I lost my mobile phone. I was beaten. Especially psychologically, I was hurt,” he says. “And that was difficult. It was not the physical assault that bothered me most, it was more that there are people out there who have racist ideas in their minds and that people did not help me.” Right-wing violence is on the rise in Germany. The country’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (BKA) received more than 3,700 reports of attacks on asylum seekers and refugees in 2016, a dramatic increase of 200% from the year before. Physical and verbal attacks like the one Fares experienced are the most common, and they happen frequently on public transport, as his did. This is, in part, a backlash to German Chancellor
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