Bangladeshi food delivery rider Sabbirrul Alam has stopped making night-time deliveries on his bike in Bucharest ever since a man hit a fellow countryman on the street, shouting “Go back to your country!” and “You are an invader!”

“I’m afraid,” the 29-year-old told AFP, adding that the incident in August had surprised him.

“I think people have become very angry,” said Alam, sporting a black cap with the Romanian flag.

The attack came just days after one of the leaders of the far-right AUR party, which has been gaining votes, asked people on Facebook to refuse deliveries from drivers who aren’t Romanian.

Several European countries have seen an increase in attacks against immigrants in tandem with rising hate speech across the continent.

Concern is growing in Romania, which relies heavi

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