Daniel Krawczyk is convinced bad things will happen to his Berlin neighborhood once the
refugees move in: "They'll break into our basements," he says, "steal our kids' cell phones, bring crime and violence and take away our jobs." The 29-year-old janitor in the eastern outskirts of Berlin is among many locals up in arms over the city's plans to turn an empty high school into a center for up to 400 asylum seekers, part of growing opposition to refugee shelters across the country.
About 43,000 people applied for asylum in Germany in the first six months of 2013, almost double the roughly 23,000 for the same period in 2012. While the numbers are a far cry from the hundreds of thousands who flowed into Germany at the height of the 1990s Yugoslavia wars, German cities still find themselves struggling to cope with the influx of recent refugees, mainly from Syria, Chechnya and Afghanistan. Germany is the top destination for refugees to the European Union, followed by Sweden, France and Britain, all of which also received thousands of asylum applications during the last few months. Berlin in particular is struggling; some of its shelters are so overcrowded that beds for new arrivals are sometimes put up in hallways and community rooms. In the first half of the year, 2,300 new refugees arrived in the German capital, compared to 1,180 in the same period last year. While Germany's states pay for room and board, it is city governments, often broke, that need to advance the money - sometimes taking up loans for putting up the refugees.
ONCE AGAIN MUSLIM OPPORTUNISTS ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF UNREST IN THEIR COUNTRIES.
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