“I was crying” when she saw news of the Munich attack last week, which left a young child and her mother.

“Why should someone do something like that? Why? I can’t understand it.”

An Afghan man in the detention after he was the latest in a series of attacks in German cities where the suspect was asylum seeker.

Last Thursday, she was a mother and daughter in Munich. Last month, another child and an adult person were killed in Achushapurg.

Alia came here before a decade from Syria with her little son. Now 10, he and his mother welcome me at their home.

They were among 1.2 million people who applied for asylum in Germany from 2015-16, and many of them from Syria, but also from countries that include Afghanistan and Iraq.

The attacks were placed in the security and immigration introduction and amid an electoral campaign, days before the Germans vote on their next government on February 23.

She also says despair is one of those who commit violence in a country, she says, “He gave us everything.”

The BBC first heard her story a decade ago when they were filmed at a refugee center in the city of Uberhausen.

Rami has seen a picture of himself since 2015. He is young, surrounded by the escape jacket when his mother fled Syria, which has been torn by war.

“How can I go with him in this boat?” She asks herself, remember how they crossed the Aegean Sea with 60 others, packed in a small boat.

“I didn’t know that I had passed,” says Rami. He frightens him to see him now.

After ten years, Alia trained in the care of the elderly and prepared married. She is looking for work, while Rami goes to a local school and is a fans of emotional football.

Both speak the German: Rami grew up in the language and studied it automatically.

They are grateful to their adopted country and plan to stay; Rami dreams of becoming a doctor, policeman or football player.

The mother and child have changed, which is not surprising, in the past ten years.

As well as Germany.

In 2015, there were scenes of desserts that were delivered to refugees who arrive at the Munich train station, where an unparalleled number of people fled to Europe because of conflict, instability or poverty.

German Welcome culture, Or the welcoming culture was wrapped when Chancellor Angela Merkel announced: “We can manage this.”

For its supporters, it was a pragmatic and emotional reaction; For its critics, one of its most uncomfortable mistakes.

After a decade and any person you spoke to agree that the positions may harden, in society and politics.

Alia says that she has “a lot of German friends”, but she discovered the broader change in the mood in Germany and remembers hearing the phrase Foreign outside Foreigners outside.

However, it is “very sad” about refugees and migrants who do not learn the Germans or, in their opinion, have failed to integrate properly.

“The key to this country is the language, while she adds:” There is also a positive aspect that many people learned the language and started working, “she says.

Close to the main Oberhausen Park, George, 66, says he continues people from all backgrounds but worried about “extremism”.

He lived in the city most of his life and was working as a car and Tiller mechanic. He mourns what he sees a general decrease in Uberhausen, referring to the infrastructure of aging and non -investment.

Many in Germany also talk about a desire to obtain more public safety and disappointment with the parties that have ruled the country since the reconciliation.

The outgoing government in Germany has re -imposed borders, as it tries to reduce the number of asylum seekers, and the opposition parties want to move forward.

George says it is a difficult problem, but she believes that security is needed: “Regardless of who is responsible. Not as now. It should change.”

Before the immigration crisis in Europe, Opethusen was already a multicultural city.

Local government figures show that in 2010, 22 % of people were not born in Oberhausen as German citizens or had a migrant parent.

By 2016, this number rose to 28 % while the last number, since 2023, was up to 37 %.

Walking through the center, the tense nature to discuss German migration becomes clear.

Archdowning, there is a demonstration against the extreme right -wing alternative to the German party (AFD), which converted to the concept of “Remigration”; A large -scale phrase that means collective deportation.

On the main street, AFD party was put forward, but it quickly attracted the “Nazis” shouts.

Two men of colors end in a hot argument with party activists, which we publicly photograph.

We hear one of the activists AFD, whom we were talking to earlier, saying: “Go back to your own Hometown (The homeland) If you do not like this here. ”

When I challenge this man, Yurg Lang, then, he denies that the observation was racist.

A member of the city council tells me that voters will have their opinion and the sounds of doubt that one of the men grew up here, despite their fluency in the language.

“Did you say the same thing for a white person?” Ask.

“No, of course not,” Mr. Lang – but he denies again that he is racist.

“He attacked me personally,” says Lang. He said, “You are Nazi.” Then, of course you have to say that if there is something that does not suit you here in Germany, you can return. Then we leave us alone here. “

The police arrive, and during that time I talk to the two men participating in the argument, Kwami and Batib, both of whom are in the thirties.

“Tell us to go back!” “Three streets are far from here.” Kwame says.

“We went to school here, and Rana here … We have children here,” they tell me. “We pay taxes, pay a lot of taxes!”

I ask the couple whether their role in the fight adds to the high temperature of political debate.

“We feel, Wow, are we still in the same place now?” Says Kwame, who used the term “Nazis” in the argument.

Dancing designer tells me, he told me that he came to Germany from 13 -year -old Ghana while Prathep describes how he was born in the city.

“I am German,” says Prathep. “I am proud of this city,” harmoniously in Kwami. “Wherever you go in the world [I say] I am from Oberhausen. “

They both believe that their community has become “greatly” more divided in recent years.

The political climate, which includes a constantly strong survey to AFD, led to the tightening of the language by some major political parties in Germany.

Conservative Christian Democrats who led opinion polls called for a “border ban” on anyone entering Germany without the right papers, even if they are looking for protection.

Social Democrats pledged to accelerate asylum procedures and increase deportation.

AFD wants to close German borders and leave the joint European asylum policy.

I hope that Germany will keep its doors open to the refugees: “There is still a war everywhere. People need this … Perhaps there are good people who escape from the war.”

The future of German immigration policy depends on any parties that form an alliance after these elections, and what they can agree on.

But the right -wing transformation is already, in fact and rhetoric.