A recurring headline on BBC Breakfast this morning ran as follows:
Thousands of people have taken part in more anti-migrant protests in the Germany city of Chemnitz last night. A week ago a German man was killed allegedly by two asylum seekers - triggering a series of violent demonstrations. The far-right political party in the country - the AfD - has been accused of inflaming tensions.
And yet who was accusing the AfD of "whipping up" tensions on the BBC News Channel yesterday? Yes, it was a BBC reporter - one Jenny Hill no less:
I've spoken to people today who say, elderly people who say, they're really worried about what they perceive to be migrant-fuelled criminality in the city, but then you speak to right-wing extremists or political leaders who appear to be rather whipping up those concerns.
I am sure that Jenny Hill, well educated in a fee paying school in Jersey, has all the life experiences to understand how mass migration can impact someone from a low income family in a poor part of a country. But the crowds of protestors I have seen on TV don't look that elderly.
ReplyDeleteWhen you get a load of random strangers dumped in small settled towns with which they have no connection and nobody knows who they are or what to do with them, followed by outbreaks of disorder or a terrible crime such as a murder, its impact on the whole town and the population of the district must be one of profound shock. If they find that the murderer should have been deported but wasn't, that is even more disturbing.
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