Islamist attacks, migrant crisis make Germans anxious


  • World
  • Tuesday, 12 Jul 2016

Migrants rest on the ground after exhibition halls used as refugee camps were damaged in a fire in Duesseldorf, Germany, June 7, 2016. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germans have become far more fearful in the last year, with a possible terrorist attack, political extremism and the social effects of Europe's migrant crisis topping their list of worries, a survey showed on Tuesday.

Just over a year before a federal election in Europe's biggest economy, the annual study by insurer R+V showed a 10 percentage point increase in its annual "fear index" of Germans to 49 percent.

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