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 numb
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