BERLIN (Reuters) – Syrians in Germany, hurt by a far-right politician’s matter that their coffee was paid for by German taxpayers, responded on amicable media with a hashtag “I compensate for my coffee”, tagging a politician, who recently visited Syria.
Last week, 7 members of a Alternative for Germany (AfD) celebration visited Syria to accumulate information on a confidence situation, in a wish of display Syria was a protected nation to that it should be probable to expatriate unsuccessful haven seekers.
Christian Blex, an AfD informal lawmaker, posted a print of himself celebration coffee in a war-ravaged Syrian city of Homs.
“While supposed ‘Syrian’ ‘refugees’ from Homs splash coffee during a responsibility of a German taxpayer in Berlin, we splash coffee during a possess responsibility in Homs,” he wrote on Facebook.
Syrians vital around Germany responded by posting photos and brief videos of themselves celebration coffee and observant “I compensate for my coffee.”
“When we saw this design from Dr. Christian Blex, we indeed found it offensive,” pronounced Oula Suliman, a Syrian medical tyro in Berlin who participated in a campaign.
Suliman pronounced all a Syrians she met while operative during an formation centre for refugees in Berlin wish to work though anticipating a pursuit is a large plea for them.
Mouhannad Malek, a Syrian migrant who posted a print of himself underneath a hashtag pronounced a debate wanted to send a summary to a AfD that Syrians are partial of society.
“I consider when he visited Syria, yes, maybe he paid for his coffee, though his confidence wasn’t paid for out of his possess pocket. It was paid for by a Syrian taxpayers,” pronounced Malek, who has been in Germany given 2016 and works in Berlin as a researcher in mobile biology and oncology.
“We are refugees. We are immigrants. And we are perplexing o attend in a resources of German population,” Malek told Reuters TV.
In November, after a AfD came third in a inhabitant election, a celebration due repatriating half a million Syrian refugees vital in Germany, observant a fight there was scarcely over. [L1N1NF1FB]
Juergen Pohl, an AfD politician who was also in Syria pronounced Syrians could be sent to certain protected regions there, nonetheless not to areas like eastern Ghouta, on a hinterland of a capital, where thousands of civilians were journey this week during a large allege by supervision forces.
“In a centre of Damascus, there is now no problem to repatriate refugees,” Pohl told Deutschlandfunk radio.
Reporting by Riham Alkousaa; Editing by Peter Graff