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Migrants waited outside a registration office for asylum seekers in Berlin last month. Credit Sean Gallup\/Getty Images
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FREITAL, Germany \u2014 Even as Germany has been trying to accommodate a swelling stream of newcomers, the most anywhere in Europe, it is also experiencing a persistent pattern of violence against migrants, raising concerns about escalating far-right opposition.<\/p>\n
Rights activists who monitor the treatment of refugees say while they are seeing an increase in hate crimes across Europe, particularly targeting Roma or asylum-seekers from Europe\u2019s poorest countries, nowhere have they seen mass demonstrations or attacks on housing for refugees like those in Germany.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve seen many bad news stories from Germany, but not that many from other countries \u2014 not in the sense of calling it a growing trend,\u201d said Thorfinnur Omarsson, a spokesman for the European Council on Refugees and Exiles, based in Brussels.<\/p>\n
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\nIn the first half of this year alone, more than 179,000 people applied for asylum in Germany, a country of about 80 million. That is an increase of 132 percent over the same period in 2014, with Syrians the largest group, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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