I was going to play sports in one of the central areas of Helsinki. I was dressed normally, with all cloths bought in Finland, I was walking silently, no talking my native language. I am from Eastern Europe. Suddenly I heard someone screeming “excuse me” somewhere behind my back. I was sure nobody would call to me in English in this kind of situation because normally in all situations people started to talk in Finnish to me. Therefore I ignored this screem. However, it continued for at least 5 minutes that I was walking. In the end I was thinking that maybe someone in trouble and decided to turn. I was shocked to see 4 teenage boys of age around 14yo holding something in their hands and being very much right behind me. Their screem “excuse me” was addressed to me. When I asked them what do they want, they asked if I know where is railways station. Since this neighborhood was new and I genuinely didn’t understand them, I said that I don’t know. The next moment one of them said: “So where are your fucking country from”. When I got what is the point of this situation, I just turned and continued my walk. And at this moment they started to throw rocks at me and run after me. They hold rocks all this time in their hands.
Since it is very difficult to just randomly see that I’m foreigner and especially identify it just like that in the street for a group of people , I was very afraid that they might be getting this info from hacking some services, because it is literally still a mystery to me how they know that I was a foreigner.