EUROPE-MIGRANTS/GERMANY KIEL Refugees on German Baltic Sea coast wait for ferry to Sweden

Record ID: 140110

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/GERMANY KIEL Refugees on German Baltic Sea coast wait for ferry to Sweden
  • Date: 10th September 2015
  • Summary: KIEL, GERMANY (SEPTEMBER 10, 2015) (REUTERS) FERRY DOCKED AT GERMANY'S BALTIC SEA PORT OF KIEL (pron.: KEEL), DESTINED FOR GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN VARIOUS OF REFUGEES WITH SMALL CHILDREN GATHERED ON PIER AHEAD OF FERRY'S DEPARTURE SCHEDULED FOR 6:45 P.M. (1645 GMT) (SOUNDBITE) (German) POLICE SPOKESMAN, JUERGEN BOERNER, SAYING: "We are talking about close to 200 refugees who are here. Some of them came from Flensburg (German city on Danish border). Yesterday, there was a larger operation at Flensburg station. The head of police there assured the refugees that if they left the platform -- they needed a roof above their heads because there were families with children and sick people and for humanitarian reasons we wanted to get them off the platform -- the head of police told them 'please come with us, tomorrow we will take you where you want to go, the ferry in Kiel." VARIOUS OF REFUGEES ON PIER PEOPLE WATCHING FROM GLASS BRIDGE (SOUNDBITE) (English) TAXI DRIVER FROM AFGHANISTAN, MIAN MOHAMMED KHAN, SAYING: "I have been a taxi driver for 18 years, in Afghanistan. My English is only from English movies, not from studies. But for him, (I want) a better future." KHAN'S SMALL SON LOOKING ON VARIOUS OF REFUGEES ENTERING TERMINAL BUILDING AND TAKING ESCALATORS PIER WITH A SHIP IN BACKGROUND
  • Embargoed: 25th September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Germany
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA5WX0L51PUQSK9M8MSV5XLKHWP
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Around 200 refugees who want to go to Sweden waited for a ferry in the German Baltic Sea port of Kiel on Thursday (September 10) after police had convinced them to leave the station on the border with Denmark the previous night.
    Police spokesman Juergen Boerner told reporters that Wednesday night saw "a larger operation at Flensburg station. The head of police there assured the refugees that if they left the platform -- they needed a roof above their heads because there were families with children and sick people and for humanitarian reasons we wanted to get them off the platform -- the head of police told them 'please come with us, tomorrow we will take you where you want to go, the ferry in Kiel.'"
    One of the people waiting to leave for Sweden was Mian Mohammad Khan.
    "I have been a taxi driver for 18 years, in Afghanistan. My English is only from English movies, not from studies," he said.
    But for him, (I want) a better future," Khan said, pointing to his young son standing next to him.
    Sweden expects to receive 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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