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 threatened. I feel empathy. We have not had any attacks on or protests against the refugee shelter so far and I hope that it stays that way. I do not feel like there is rising tension in my neighborhood since NYE. But everyone on social media is going crazy and needs to calm the fuck down. Just because the attackers have been reported looking like Arabs, it does not mean that they were refugees. A non-trivial part of Colognes population is of Turkish heritage. Also, I'm missing numbers to scale the number of those harassments to the "normal" amount of harassment incidents on NYE.
Label: no hate