EUROPE-MIGRANTS/GERMANY MUNICH ARRIVAL More refugees arrive at Munich train station from Vienna

Record ID: 140536

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/GERMANY MUNICH ARRIVAL More refugees arrive at Munich train station from Vienna
  • Date: 1st September 2015
  • Summary: MUNICH, GERMANY (SEPTEMBER 1, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF TRAIN CARRYING REFUGEES ARRIVING FROM VIENNA AT MUNICH STATION VARIOUS OF REFUGEES GETTING OFF TRAIN AND GATHERING IN AND AROUND STATION, POLICE STANDING BY (SOUNDBITE) (German) DEPUTY SPOKESMAN MUNICH POLICE, THOMAS BAUMANN, SAYING: "We are trying to give the refugees a humanitarian and humane welcome. The police, together with firefighters, are ensuring the distribution of water and food. We are also trying to arrange for onward transportation. It's working." VARIOUS OF REFUGEES GATHERED OUTSIDE MUNICH TRAIN STATION, POLICE NEARBY REFUGEES STANDING OUTSIDE BUS VARIOUS OF VEILED WOMEN AND CHILDREN SITTING ON PAVEMENT YOUNG MEN SEATED NEAR FIRE DEPARTMENT CAR VARIOUS OF FOOD DISTRIBUTION (SOUNDBITE) (German) VOLUNTEER, THOMAS DUCHMANN, SAYING: "We called for donations via social networks, we tried everything hoping that at least a few donations would be made. Now we are almost better equipped than a supermarket. We want to continue until politicians are saying 'we are taking over' and even so, we still want to help until the situation normalises again, until we see humane conditions again." VARIOUS OF SMALL CHILDREN AT FOOD DISTRIBUTION
  • Embargoed: 16th September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Germany
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA7SQAACOHL7WMISB9VVLC1YWXM
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: As some 200 new refugees arrived by train in Munich on Tuesday morning (September 1), many of them small children, German police said they were trying to give them "a humanitarian and humane welcome."
    Outside the station a crowd of people was gathered, among them refugees who had arrived earlier on other trains.
    Volunteers handed out food and water to the migrants before they were expected to be taken to shelters across the southern state of Bavaria.
    One volunteer was Thomas Baumann, a man in his twenties. "We called for donations via social networks, we tried everything hoping that at least a few donations would be made. Now we are almost better equipped than a supermarket," he said.
    Baumann said that he and the other helpers were determined to continue their work "until politicians are saying 'we are taking over' and even so, we still want to help until the situation normalises again, until we see humane conditions again."
    On Monday evening (August 31), hundreds of migrants arrived in Munich on several trains travelling from Budapest after officials there let them board trains in a move that took German and Austrian officials by surprise.
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