EUROPE-MIGRANTS/BUDAPEST TRAIN STATION Migrants rush to enter Austria, Germany before Hungary crackdown

Record ID: 139952

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/BUDAPEST TRAIN STATION Migrants rush to enter Austria, Germany before Hungary crackdown
  • Date: 12th September 2015
  • Summary: BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (SEPTEMBER 12, 2015) (REUTERS) TENTS OUTSIDE KELETI RAILWAY STATION VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS WAITING TO ENTER STATION MAN SITTING WITH BABY IN ARMS VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS ENTERING STATION, POLICE SUPERVISING VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS RUNNING AND BOARDING TRAIN ARABIC-SPEAKING VOLUNTEERS HELPING MIGRANTS AND POLICE TO SPEED UP BOARDING VOLUNTEER GIVING INSTRUCTIONS TO CROWD OF MIGRANTS MIGRANTS WITH CHILDREN WALKING (SOUNDBITE) (English) STUDENT FROM OMAN WHO CAME TO VOLUNTEER AT RAILWAY STATION, MASHAAL AL-HAJRI, SAYING: "We need to get them out of Hungary as soon as possible before the military enter into the situation and try to solve it. So we need to get all the refugees out of Budapest as soon as possible, before 15th." VOLUNTEERS GUIDING MIGRANTS TO PLATFORM VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS BOARDING TRAIN MIGRANTS SITTING IN TRAIN VARIOUS OF TRAIN LEAVING STATION
  • Embargoed: 27th September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Hungary
  • Country: Hungary
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVAETI5C1HRD3U36N3VVHKG5SCHR
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Scores of migrants and refugees rushed to board trains heading for Austria and Germany on Saturday (September 12), before tough new immigration rules come into effect in Hungary on Tuesday (September 15).
    Hungary's right-wing leader is vowing to clamp down on illegal border crossings and said on Friday (September 11) that any "rebellious" migrants would be arrested, starting next week.
    On Saturday, huge crowds gathered at Keleti railway station in Budapest, anxiously waiting to make the next leg of their journey.
    A student volunteer from Oman said it was imperative to move the migrants out of the country before the new rules are implemented.
    "We need to get them out of Hungary as soon as possible before the military enter into the situation and try to solve it. So we need to get all the refugees out of Budapest as soon as possible, before 15th," said Mashaal al-Hajri.
    Hungary says that as of Tuesday, authorities will receive and start processing asylum requests at the border and transport all those who apply by bus to camps elsewhere in the country. Those migrants who refuse to cooperate will be kept at the border, and those who cross the border illegally, trying to avoid police, face arrest and possible imprisonment.
    The government plans to further crack down a week later with a likely decision to send in the army, though Defence Minister Istvan Simiscsko said on Friday that some 3,800 soldiers were already "near" the border.
    Hungary, the main entry point into Europe's borderless Schengen zone for migrants, has taken a hard line, vowing to seal its southern frontier with a new, high security fence, which is due to be completed by early October.
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