opened her country to refugees in 2015, she was praised for her humanitarian stand. but not everyone has offered such a warm welcome to the newcomers. new officialfigures show that there are at least ten attacks on migrants every day. more than 900,000 asylum seekers were taken into germany in 2015, although that figure dropped to 280,000 last year. the open door policy has proved politically sensitive and has led to an increase in hate crime. the interior ministry figures for 2016 showed that there were more that there were more than 2,500 attacks against individual refugees in the country. more than 500 people were injured including 43 children. the figures also reveal there were almost 1,000 attacks on migrant shelters, a similar number to the year before. the issue of migration is expected to feature heavily in parliamentary elections this september. stephan dunnwald is from the bavarian refugees‘ council and gave me his reaction to the figures released today. we guess that the numbers will be high and we criticised, during the past years, that every single attack of migrants towards germans is entering in a big debate on german tv, and shows and newspapers, and that the attacks on migrants, on refugees especially, they are not really discussed in public. and we criticise the ministry of interior that they are not doing enough to prevent it. can you give us some examples of what exactly is happening? have you met people who have had this problem? we are not meeting these people personally. we are working with these volunteers who are assisting and integrating refugees, but we often have refugees there who say, ok, i'm anxious to go there alone, or, i'm fearing in this flat, and we have difficulties in this neighbourhood, and so on. in terms of who is behind this, is it far—right groups, or is itjust thugs? why are the numbers so high? i mean, a part of it is definitely done by far—right groups. but what we see is that, in many cases, local people are also trying to attack refugees, because they are not happy with refugees living in the neighbourhood. and that is a serious thing because that is very difficult also. these people are difficult to find. the right—wing groups, they are under the radar of the police, but these neighbours are, in many cases, unknown and they hide away and they are not detected afterwards. in a rare public display of anti—government feeling, thousands of people have been taking part in an opposition march in the centre of moscow on sunday. it's in memory of the murdered opposition leader, boris nemtsov, who was shot dead in moscow two years ago. moscow police said 5,000 attended the event but organisers put the figure in the tens of thousands. 0ur correspondent sarah rainsford has been at the demonstration. this crowd here has come out to remember boris nemtsov, two years after he was shot in the back and killed next to the kremlin, a murder that shocked russia and people believe it was meant to terrify other voices of opposition into silence. they have come out in this act of remembrance and defiance, shouting that russia will be free and will out putin. i came here because it is kind of myjob, if i lived in russia —— i live in russia, i show my voice here, that is it. when boris nemtsov was killed, that was a tragedy for russian freedom and for the russian freedom movement and for the russian freedom movement and for the russian freedom movement and for ourfamily as and for the russian freedom movement and for our family as well. it's very important that we were here la st very important that we were here last year and also this year and we will be there last year and also this year and we fig; elli; eéliiaigiiés teéli ii; = meg from 5555 51155 5515535351555 t5515 515 = meg from chatting 5555 51155 5515535351555 t5515 55 = men. from chatting ;‘ trial in ‘ who ‘who are ‘ who are supposed ‘who are supposed to be the moscow—whiz; are—sappesedterbe the men, mescew—whe are—seppeeeetehe the men, the