#Terrorists: ‘No one to talk to’

Lalonde helps out weekly at a small village that few had heard of before February.

But Clausnitz gained notoriety after a bus carrying refugees was mobbed by a marauding crowd.

“They shouted things like ‘we will kill you’. They were drunk. We were so scared,” said Afghan asylum seeker Sadia Azizi.

Six months on, two dozen refugees still living there complain of isolation as most locals have kept a distance and only German is spoken.

“There is no one to talk to,” said Lebanese asylum seeker Majdi Khatun.

Some however have made an effort to reach out.

Khatun’s son Luai, 15, spoke of schoolmates who help with homework or lend him notes to copy when the teacher’s German is too rapid for him.

“There are no Nazis here,” Luai said before greeting an elderly German couple.

“Did you like the marmalade? I’ve also packed some cake for you,” said the woman who called herself “Luai’s Deutsche Oma”, or German grandma.

Lalonde admitted that it is “discouraging” that these efforts are often overshadowed by xenophobia.

“But I get motivated when I hear about a new attack because it means we have more work to do,” he said. “And we can’t give up.”