Tensions laid bare as Germans worry about immigration ahead of election
BBC"I was crying," says Alya, when she saw news of last week's Munich attack that left a toddler and her mother dead.
"Why should someone do something like that? Why? I can't understand it."
An Afghan man's in custody after what was the latest in a series of attacks in German cities where the suspect has been an asylum seeker.
Last Thursday it was a mother and daughter in Munich; last month another child and an adult were killed in Aschaffenburg.
Alya came here a decade ago from Syria with her baby son. Now 10, he and his mother welcome me into their home.
They were among a record 1.2 million people who applied for asylum in from 2015-16, many of them from Syria but also from countries including Afghanistan and Iraq.
The attacks have put security and migration front and centre of an election campaign, days before Germans vote on their next government on 23 February.
Alya despairs of those who commit violence in a country that, she says, has "given us everything".
The BBC first heard their story a decade earlier when they were filmed at a refugee centre in the city of Oberhausen.
Rami looks at a photo of himself from 2015. He's tiny, enveloped in a life jacket from when his mother fled war-torn Syria.
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