“A young man strikes a man, probably under the influence of messages carefully propagated by a whisper of characters who do not deserve any respect.” Raed Arafat, after the attack on the bangladesh deliveror

The head of the Department for Emergency Situations (DSU), Raed Arafat, of Palestinian origin, reacted on Thursday to the attack on a bangladesh food supplier, hit in Bucharest by a young man who shouted “Go back to your country!” And “you are an invader.” Arafat said that the young attacker “probably acted under the influence of racist and xenophobic messages, carefully designed and propagated by a whisper of characters that do not deserve any respect” and pointed out that such ideologies do not appear from nothing, but are cultivated.

“An attack on a man motivated by the color of the skin or its origin is a direct attack on human dignity. Sa, probably under the influence of racist and xenophobic messages, carefully designed and propagated by a whisper of characters that do not deserve any respect, ”Arafat wrote on a Facebook post on Thursday night.

Arafat also says that hatred of this type “manipulates the emotions of the vulnerable and exploits the lack of historical education.”

“Our young people need to know that such ideologies have only suffered suffering. And Hitler used young people to instigate against the Jews and all those who consider inferior, and the result was one of the blackest chapters in the history of mankind,” said DSU.

“Those who raise their hands against a man today because it is different, as well as those who approve such gestures, even by silence, repeat, consciously or not, the tragic mistakes of the past. Our role is to learn, to remember and to oppose firmly whenever the hatred tries to become a dominant voice, in a loud Romanian, Conchis Raed Arafat.

Raed Arafat, of Palestinian origin, was born in Syria, but grew up in the city of Nablus, located in the north of the West Bank until the age of 16, when he emigrated to Romania.

Worker from Bangladesh, hit by a young man who shouted to be “invader”

On Tuesday night, a 20-year-old hit a bangladesh-driver on a street in Sector 2 of the Capital, shouting in English: “Go back to your country!” And “you are an invader.” The aggressor filmed the moment, but was immediately caught by a policeman in his free time. Preventively arrested for 30 days, the young man is accused of hitting for racial and xenophobic reasons.

The incident has aroused strong reactions. “Such acts of xenophobic violence, no matter how isolated, are an attack on the fundamental values ​​of our society. The authorities should deal with this case with maximum seriousness, as a motivated offense of hatred,” said the President of Romania, Nicușor Dan.

The incident comes just a few days after the gold deputy Dan Tanasa published on his Facebook page a viral message, urging Romanians to refuse the orders delivered by foreign couriers: “Refuse the order if it is not delivered by a Romanian. Do not encourage the import of unskilled workers from Asia and Africa!