Racist attacks in Greece have left some migrants and refugees afraid to walk the streets
After a long day searching for a new job, Gulbaz Mohammed made his way home on foot, following the same path he walked each day in the Athens suburb of Peristeri.
He initially kept his balance, but the men continued kicking and punching him, eventually toppling him on to the sidewalk. On Thursday, the Athens-based Racist Violence Recording Network released its annual report, which documented a 14-percent increase in racist violence in 2018 when compared to the previous year.
Golden Dawn was founded as a neo-Nazi group during the early 1980s and currently has 16 representatives in the Greek parliament [AP Photo] “The support base for violent acts against refugees and migrants is expanding,” states the report, adding that many of the incidents the RVRN documented appeared to be “organised attacks” or carried out by “organised groups” that “proudly state they are infused with extreme xenophobic ideologies”.
Altogether, the tally included 226 incidents, among them 152 targeting refugees and migrants; nearly one-in-four incidents targeted Pakistani nationals living in Greece.
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