During the campaign , public spaces and the media were inundated by large billboards with messages , such as " Did you know ? More than 300 people were killed in terrorist attacks in Europe since the start of the migrant crisis " , " Did you know ? The Paris terrorist attacks were carried out by immigrants " , " Did you know ? 1,5 million illegal immigrants arrived to Europe in 2015 " , " Did you know ? Brussels wants the forced resettling of a city 's worth of illegal immigrants into Hungary " , " Did you know ? Almost one million immigrants want to come to Europe from Libya alone ? " and " Did you know ? Since the start of the immigration crisis , sexual harassment of women has increased in Europe ? " . Several critics described these slogans as " xenophobic " and " racist " . Emma Graham-Harrison , columnist of '' The Guardian '' wrote on 17 September 2016 , the government campaign is characterized by " violent language " and " bitterly contested claims " ( including about alleged " no-go zones " throughout Western Europe ) . Al Jazeera quoted a Hungarian Muslim woman , who said " I 'm starting to feel that my own homeland is repudiating me " . John Dalhuisen , Director at Amnesty International ( AI ) told " Prime Minister Orbán has replaced the rule of law with the rule of fear " . Government spokesman Zoltán Kovács denied these accusations and called the messages as manifestations of " common sense " . He said " People all over the EU sense that something wrong is happening with migration . What is happening is out of control . We need to regain our ability to reinforce law and order at the borders of the European Union " . Nevertheless , multiple surveys showed that xenophobia and distrust towards the asylum-seekers and refugees increased dramatically due to the government campaign methods . As Publicus Intézet pointed in September 2016 , while two-thirds of respondents expressed their tolerance and pro-migrant support in the last year , now , only one-third of them . Sociologist Endre Sik , head of Tárki public opinion research institute said , in the summer of 2016 , " racism and xenophobia in Hungary has reached its peak since 1990 " , after when " all refugees left Hungary in January " , he added . A late September survey by Závecz Research also showed that 70 percent of the respondents thought that " influx of refugees increases the risk of terrorism " . According to the survey , 80 percent of the Hungarian population were completely or moderately rejecteing against refugees or immigrants
Paris terrorist attacks
November 2015 Paris attacks
2016 Hungarian migrant quota referendum