Dirk Voltz and his partner Mario opened up their home in Berlin to refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, and Dirk has written an account of their ‘disappointing’ experience.
But don’t worry, he was being completely sarcastic! Mr. Voltz’s tongue-in-cheek Facebook post has gone viral after he condemned stories about migrants being responsible for theft and violence as ‘scaremongering’.
Instead, Dirk says that he and Mario have happily discovered that their knives were “still in the kitchen”, precisely where they left them; that they “never needed a key for the bedroom” and that all that was “stabbed” in the weeks the couple hosted the desperate migrants in their home were “onions, garlic and a looooot of meat”.
In the post, Mr Voltz writes:
“Mario and I are still alive. Perhaps, even more intensively than before.
Whether we’ll ever return to “normal,” we do not know.
No Muslim who was there wanted to kill us in our sleep. No one insulted us because we are two men and share one bed. No one, by any means, said they prefer Sharia law over German Law.”
I know that what happened this past summer and this fall have changed our lives. You can be there for other people. Or you can be scared. And if that happens, I’m sorry.
I’m sorry for those who live in fear.”
This feel-good story comes as Ireland is set to take in upwards of 4,000 displaced refugees, with the first to arrive during this month.
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