It was 8pm on Monday when Khaled Idris Bahray told his seven flatmates he was popping out to buy some cigarettes from the Netto supermarket about metres away from his flat in a prefab high-rise in the south of Dresden. But around 7. According to his flatmates, in reports that the police will not confirm, he was covered in blood, with at least one deep cut visible on his body. Rigor mortis had already set in. But just hours later they confirmed the results of the postmortem showed that Bahray had been unlawfully killed in what appears to have been a vicious knife attack.
It is murder. Tensions in the city have been high in the 12 weeks since the rallies began, with a reported increase in racist attacks. But while the motive for his killing and the identity of his killer remain unclear, on social network sites the death of the young man prompted a flood of responses, from those who were shocked and horrified to others who expressed malicious glee.
More and more foreigners are being let in and schools are even being closed to make way for asylum homes β¦ As a result German schoolchildren are having to travel kilometres away to other towns to go to school. This is just the pits. Another said it was unfair to blame Pegida. Much of the debate on Facebook, Twitter and other networks focused on blaming Pegida for having forged an atmosphere of hatred and resentment. But the organisers of the group, who have been famously shy of speaking to the press, told the Guardian that it was absolutely shameful to blame them.
But there are lots of people out there trying to blame us for many things right now. If there is resentment on the streets of Dresden, it was there before we existed. We wish after his death, they will think of moving us to a safer part of Germany. Khaled Idris Bahray, a year-old refugee from Eritrea, was found dead in the courtyard of the Dresden housing estate where he lived.
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