EUROPE-MIGRANTS/GERMANY PRINTING PRESS Germany turns former printing press into refugee shelter as influx continues

Record ID: 140064

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/GERMANY PRINTING PRESS Germany turns former printing press into refugee shelter as influx continues
  • Date: 11th September 2015
  • Summary: NEU-ISENBURG, GERMANY (SEPTEMBER 11, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF EXTERIOR OF DISUSED PRINTING PRESS IN FRANKFURT SUBURB OF NEU-ISENBURG WHERE LOCAL AUTHORITIES HAVE PUT UP REFUGEES VARIOUS OF REFUGEES WALKING AROUND AND SITTING ON CAMP BEDS, FILMED FROM BEHIND TO PROTECT THEIR IDENTITIES, AS REQUESTED BY CITY OFFICIALS (SOUNDBITE) (English) 18-YEAR-OLD REFUGEE FROM SOMALIA, HAMZE MUHUMED KHALIF, SAYING: "I [would] very much like to live here in Germany. The German people are very, very nice people, they are making me feel good." SIGN READING (German/Arabic): "SMALL SHOES" ROWS OF CHILDREN'S SHOES (SOUNDBITE) (German) HESSE STATE MINISTER FOR SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND INTEGRATION, STEFAN GRUETTNER, SAYING: "So far we have always managed to house the asylum seekers and refugees assigned to us. As of today, we have accommodated 14,500 in 20 different locations across the state of Hesse. We will be able to take in more refugees and we will do so. But my demand here is that the acceptance and denial procedures for asylum seekers must clearly be sped up." SIGN READING (German): "INFORMATION FROM THE NEU-ISENBURG REFUGEE SHELTER: THANK YOU FOR YOUR DONATIONS. WE ARE CURRENTLY BEING FLOODED WITH ENQUIRIES AND DONATIONS. UNFORTUNATELY, FOR HEALTH REASONS WE CANNOT ACCEPT FOOD. THE REFUGEES ARE ADEQUATELY TAKEN CARE OF!" (SOUNDBITE) (German) HESSE STATE MINISTER FOR SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND INTEGRATION, STEFAN GRUETTNER, SAYING: "The asylum-seekers and refugees who came to us are simply thankful to have a roof over their head and to have a bed and a meal, to have the opportunity to just lie down and rest." ROSTOCK, GERMANY (SEPTEMBER 11, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF EXTERIOR OF TERMINAL AT ROSTOCK PORT ON BALTIC SEA COAST VARIOUS OF REFUGEES INSIDE TERMINAL BEFORE THEY BOARD A FERRY TO TRELLEBORG, SWEDEN
  • Embargoed: 26th September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Germany
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVAVH6AVIGYMHB6FUKOGRVWUMB7
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: As refugees continue to flood into Germany, the country has resorted to unconventional accommodations for the thousands of people, yet said on Friday (September 11) it was ready to take in more migrants.
    Outside the financial capital Frankfurt in the state of Hesse, a disused printing press was turned into a refugee shelter where around 700 people will be put up, according to local media reports.
    "The German people are very, very nice people, they are making me feel good," 18-year-old refugee from Somalia, Hamze Muhumed Khalif, said at the centre.
    "As of today, we have accommodated 14,500 in 20 different locations across the state of Hesse. We will be able to take in more refugees and we will do so. But my demand here is that the acceptance and denial procedures for asylum seekers must clearly be sped up," the state's minister for social affairs and integration, Stefan Gruettner, a member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party, said.
    Merkel has allowed tens of thousands of asylum seekers camped out in Hungary to travel through Austria to Germany, in an effort to avert a humanitarian crisis.
    In the Baltic Sea port of Rostock, several migrant families on their way to northern Europe were waiting to board a ferry to Trelleborg, Sweden.
    Sweden expects to receive about 80,000 refugees this year and has more asylum seekers per capita than any other European nation thanks to a generous immigration policy allowing automatic permanent residency for Syrians.
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