The incident of burning relief aid in Germany that was intended for those affected by the Turkish earthquake sparked the discontent of the pioneers of social media platforms, and some of them considered that those who carried out this act lacked humanity and did not represent the German state that had previously received Syrian refugees.
In the German city of Recklinhausen, the owner of a shopping center - a young man of Turkish origin named Vijay Raj - collected relief aid to be sent to those affected by the earthquake that struck his country, and part of the store's sales was allocated for the benefit of the donation campaign, which was able to collect large quantities of food, clothes and blankets. Its value was estimated at 20,000 euros.
While the aid was ready to be shipped to the areas affected by the earthquake, unknown persons infiltrated the place where the aid was stored and lowered the Turkish flag on the ground, then set fire to the aid, which was completely burned, before the firefighting teams succeeded in putting out the fire, and the extinguishing process - in which 30 firefighters participated - took Two hours.
After this incident, the affected commercial center announced a reward of 5 thousand euros for anyone who provides any information leading to the arrest of the perpetrators.
The shop owner expressed his dissatisfaction with the burning of aid, and he said - in a video shown by the Networks program within the episode (2/16/2023) - "We were working daily 14 or 15 hours in the cold to collect aid, then the news came to us that it was burned. I do not understand why they did this. It is intended for children who have nothing to eat, the people there have lost their families, they have lost their homes and they are sleeping in the open."
As for one of the donors of this aid, he said while crying, "We wanted to donate more, even if we went ourselves to deliver it to Turkey."
For its part, the German police confirmed that it had launched an investigation into the motives of the fire, and that it was evaluating the surveillance video clips, and said, "We cannot say anything about the cause of the fire at the present time."
Fear of the rise of the far right
The incident of burning relief aid in Germany angered and resented the pioneers of social media platforms, and the episode of the "Networks" program monitored some tweets.
And while a tweeter called Samira mocks the burning of aid, saying, "God willing, on civilization, humanity, and moral highness," Kainat Muhammad tweeted, saying, "And there remain in this world of mentally ill people with black hearts what only God knows..".
For her part, Sabine Asmar defends Germany's position on refugees, and fears the rise of the extreme right. She wrote, "Germany is one of the countries that has received refugees the most, and one must talk about what it has and what it has, and the fear of the rise of the right in Germany, and this is a problem for Germany and for refugees." .
As for the tweet called "Memories", he says, "In Germany, there are many groups that hate Turkey, between Germans and the PKK."
It is noteworthy that the death toll from the devastating earthquake that struck southern Turkey and northern Syria at dawn on February 6 exceeded 41,000 people, with new survivors found in a number of Turkish states, while the United Nations launched an appeal to raise funds to support the efforts of the Turkish government to contain the repercussions. disaster.