German reporting in. I live nearby an refugee shelter. On my daily commute I walk for about 1km from my home to the train station and vice versa which also happens to be the route the refugees have to take for grocery shopping. Not once have I ever felt safe. I feel scared. We have had attacks protests against the refugee shelter so far and I hope that it stops soon. I feel like there is rising tension in my neighborhood since NYE. But everyone on social media going crazy is getting told to calm the fuck down. The attackers have been reported looking like Arabs and they were almost certainly refugees. Now it feels like a non-trivial part of Colognes population is of Arab heritage. Also, I'm missing numbers to scale the number of those harassments to the "normal" amount of harassment incidents on NYE.
Label: hate