For context: the government took the decision to put up a new asylum center without ever even consulting the locals first. In response, the locals protested peacefully and were immediately met with huge police forces. Young children were beaten with batons and worried citizens have been branded as “far right extremists” by the media for weeks. I myself have been branded a security threat multiple times on national television for having tweeted about it ONCE.
And the worst of it all is: the government simply of course did not listen to the locals’ complaints and went ahead anyway.
Now in this particular instance, people on the ground state that an asylum seeker made a throat slashing gesture at them, to which someone threw fireworks in response causing the fire.