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But what remained largely unnoticed were the attacks on foreigners and asylum hostels. More than 4,000 have occurred since 2015, some involving the use of molotov cocktails, baseball bats, and with armed neo-Nazis even raiding children’s rooms. In 2016, an average of 10 hate crimes each day against migrants was officially registered.

I prefer not to show my face, or to name the town I live in or the activist group I am part of – because there’s no need to put people at further risk. A few weeks ago a group of us were hitching on the night of yet another racist riot. A group of neo-Nazis spotted us and started calling us “antifascist cunts”. Then they saw our dog, and turned away. It’s the little things, as well as the bigger ones, that make you feel you’re on the frontline of a battle against something large and ominous.