Syrians refugees are attacked in Europe

" "People arrive in Europe and they get treated worse than your worst nightmare. You get stuck in a cell, and you go in healthy and emerge sick," said Petros Mastakas, an official at the Athens office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees." "All Syrian refugees in Greece know someone who has been attacked. The police, they say, do nothing. "In the streets, we are afraid," Hali said. "They don't care about refugees here." "Many Syrians say they never expected Europe to show them a cold shoulder. "We thought there was freedom, these beautiful countries," said Hatim Khalaf, 45, a farmer from the Kurdish region of northeast Syria who lives in an Athens suburb with his three sons. "We see nothing of this beauty."