We live in an apartment block in an area that has had a bad reputation for awhile, mainly because of the town renting some of the buildings to narcs, alcoholists and immigrants (and as a sidenote: the tax payers paying for their rent)
Before I start, I have to tell you a few things beforehand: It is legal to park a car there temporarily if the driver is in the car. I've had seen that same red Opel parking there quite many times for hours and hours. I also have seen other vehicles parked there even through the night. Most of the time when people were told not to leave their cars there, they explained by "carrying groceries" etc. For hours. I personally want it to be left car free because one woman in our end of the house needs ambulance and taxi services to the front door and by parking in front of the first two doors nearest to the road will block the way.
Now to the thing that happened on Friday:
J went and told an immigrant it's not allowed to park in front of the doors and the hell broke loose. I wasn't there to witness the beginning but what J told to the police went like this:
J was waiting for me, sitting in his car, we carpool to work. He noticed that the red Opel that came there was the one that's been parking there all year round. He told the man it was not allowed to park there and the man went nuts. The man started yelling at J, making a gesture as if he was cutting his throat. J locked the car doors, so the man started knocking the windows and trying to open the door. Then he took a rock from the ground and was about to throw it to the car when his wife got there and asked him to drop the stone. The man dropped the stone and came towards J's car, knocking the window.
At this point I came out and saw what was going on. I saw J's face and I knew something was up. Then I saw the red Opel and knew exactly what was going on. The man stopped and started to go towards his car.
I said: "Please don't go anywhere, I'll call the police to solve this!" The man yelled at me in his own language and then came toward me, yelling "I'm taking my sick wife to the hospital", then swearing and calling me an idiot etc.
I repeated, "Wait, I'll call the police to get this solved!" "Call the police, you idiot, call your mother, sisters, whatever!" The wife came to me and started gesturing wildly, explaining what was going on. She said: "I'm sick!". I didn't say, but I thought by yelling and gesturing to me she wasn't so sick she couldn't have walked to the parking lot that's less than 40 feet away, so I said: "It doesn't matter. Leaving your car here is not allowed." I, was, like "whoa" at that point.
I said: "I've seen this car parked here many times for hours and that doesn't count as taking someone to hospital." The man got more angry.
I started walking towards J's car, they yelling at me. At this point I almost laughed at the mans anger and I turned to J and smiled. The man kept on yelling at me and this time, as I felt threatened, I said: "I don't care if you're taking your wife to the hospital now, this car has been parked here without a driver many times..." and tried to add that he should remember this later on, but he gestured towards J and said: "He's parking here!" I said: "It's different, the driver is in the car and he can move it if someone needs the road (it is legal to do this)".
I tried to explain there lives a woman who needs ambulance and taxi to her door, but he didn't pay attention, just kept yelling. I told J to call the police as I got scared. Now the man went absolutely mad and said to me: "I will shoot you!". Baffled, I asked: "Are you threatening me?"
"I will shoot you!"
I said to J: "Call the cops, he's threatening me." To the man: "You're threatening me!" He muttered something, got to his car and drove off.
We got to J's car and drove straight to the police station.
We can't get protection unless something happens (they try to hurt or kill us). So, what to do? Get ourselves ballistic vests? Helmets? I take this very seriously. If a muslim is threatening to shoot a woman, they usually do that. They shoot, stone, hang and drown their women for minor things that are not even called crimes here, so why would I, being a white, non-religious person, be worth more? They kill their own daughters when the daughters are trying to integrate to the western society!
So, immigrants who came to this country as refugees are above the law, I suppose. A police officer's son, whom J explained the whole story, laughed and said: "There's nothing the police can do. Social services pay for their fines and that's it because having to pay fines won't integrate to the society." So basically J, who pays 27% of is income as a tax, pays that fine. The police's son also told his father has seen this dozens of times and it always ends the same way: Refugees get the best legal representation for free and the victims are left with nothing... Or that the criminals only have to appeal to the fact that they are "from a different culture". The police who took our report even hinted that this whole case will be of "difference of cultures" and probably won't result in anything. Except that the other side might sue for racism.
I have always figured that if I am a guest somewhere, I play by their rules (check here)
Now I can safely say I'm not a racist even though I have felt like one for some time. Being a racist means that you have prejudice towards people from other countries and other cultures. I don't have prejudice, I have first hand experience. I don't mind people immigrating or what color their skin is. I only care what they do and so far I haven't seen good behavior.
They are guests in this country, they should obey OUR rules!
I can't believe that I have to live in fear in my own country because of some fuss-ball idiots who want to pretend they are good an humanitarian. Let these immigrants move next door to them and see what's it like for us normal people. Of course they don't mind having more immigrants and refugees because they don't have to live with them!