The local government in the German city of Rostock has shelved plans to create a new refugee home because of security concerns. But the relative lack of refugees in the city may also have been a factor.
A series of anti-refugee protests and counter-protests have led authorities in the northeastern city of Rostock to decide against setting up a new refugee home in the local district of Gross Klein.
Rostock’s Social Affairs Minister Steffen Bockhahn said it “hurt” to make the decision, but several protests against refugees and incidents in the area had forced him to decide against the new shelter, which was being installed in an empty block of flats.
The decision was immediately condemned by local opposition politicians – not least because a nearby home for unaccompanied underage refugees also had to be partially evacuated only a week earlier.
“I find it questionable if we allow ourselves to be dictated to by right-wingers where refugees are allowed to live and where not,”… read more
