{"id":349065,"date":"2017-02-26T19:08:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T19:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/02\/26\/germany-hate-crime-nearly-10-attacks-a-day-on-migrants-in-2016\/"},"modified":"2017-02-26T19:08:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T19:08:47","slug":"germany-hate-crime-nearly-10-attacks-a-day-on-migrants-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/02\/26\/germany-hate-crime-nearly-10-attacks-a-day-on-migrants-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany hate crime: Nearly 10 attacks a day on migrants in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/94852490_mediaitem94852487.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Nearly 10 attacks were made on migrants in Germany every day in 2016, the interior ministry says.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 560 people were injured in the violence, including 43 children.<\/p>\n<p>Three-quarters of the attacks targeted migrants outside of their accommodation, while nearly 1,000 attacks were on housing.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Angela Merkel\u2019s decision to open up Germany to people fleeing conflict and persecution has polarised the country and boosted hate crime.<\/p>\n<p>Germany is struggling with a backlog of asylum applications and there are fears about security following a series of terrorist attacks across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>But the number of asylum seekers arriving in Germany in 2016 was 280,000, a drop of more than 600,000 from the previous year, following the closure of the Balkan migrant route and an EU deal with Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>The issue is expected to feature heavily in parliamentary elections this September.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s interior ministry figures, which are preliminary, were released in response to a parliamentary question.<\/p>\n<p>There was no comparison with previous years because attacks against individual migrants only started to be counted as a separate category in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>In its statement, the interior ministry said it strongly condemned the violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople who have fled their home country and seek protection in Germany have the right to expect safe shelter,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>MP Ulla Jelpke from the leftist Die Linke party said that the government was too focused on a perceived security threat from migrants while the real threat was coming from the far right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo people have to die before the rightwing violence is considered a central domestic security problem and makes it to the top of the national policy agenda?\u201d she said, quoted by the Funke media group.<br \/>\u201cNazis are threatening refugees and therefore our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<p><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quicksense.net\/ --><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 10 attacks were made on migrants in Germany every day in 2016, the interior ministry says. A total of 560 people were injured in the violence, including 43 children. Three-quarters of the attacks targeted migrants outside of their accommodation, while nearly 1,000 attacks were on housing. Chancellor Angela Merkel\u2019s decision to open up Germany [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Germany hate crime: Nearly 10 attacks a day on migrants in 2016 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/02\/26\/germany-hate-crime-nearly-10-attacks-a-day-on-migrants-in-2016\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Germany hate crime: Nearly 10 attacks a day on migrants in 2016 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Nearly 10 attacks were made on migrants in Germany every day in 2016, the interior ministry says. 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