EUROPE-MIGRANTS/GERMANY-AUSTRIA BORDER German police say close to reaching refugee capacity limit on Austrian border

Record ID: 140559

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/GERMANY-AUSTRIA BORDER German police say close to reaching refugee capacity limit on Austrian border
  • Date: 1st September 2015
  • Summary: ROSENHEIM, GERMANY (SEPTEMBER 1, 2015) (REUTERS) WHITE TRAIN WITH RED STRIPE CARRYING REFUGEES ARRIVING FROM GRAZ, AUSTRIA POLICEMEN STANDING OUTSIDE TRAIN VARIOUS OF POLICE TAKING IDENTITIES OF REFUGEES AND SEARCHING THEM AT MAKESHIFT POLICE STATION SET UP ON STATION PLATFORM BLUE TRAIN FROM SALZBURG, AUSTRIA AT ROSENHEIM STATION VARIOUS OF POLICE TALKING TO REFUGEES AT TRAIN (SOUNDBITE) (German) SPOKESMAN GERMAN FEDERAL POLICE, ROSENHEIM DISTRICT, RAINER SCHARF, SAYING: "We are prepared for this mass immigration at the German-Austrian border to continue. We will continue to see very high numbers of people illegally entering the country which will continue to challenge and commit us. We are reaching our limits here at the police station and I would go as far as saying that we are beyond our limit. We are trying to do what is possible within our capabilities." VARIOUS OF REFUGEES ON CAMP BEDS SET UP IN SPORTS HALL (SOUNDBITE) (German) SPOKESMAN GERMAN FEDERAL POLICE, ROSENHEIM DISTRICT, RAINER SCHARF, SAYING: "Last night, around 400 people entered the country illegally in the Rosenheim district. The people arrived by train from Italy and the Balkans via the Brenner pass." REFUGEES IN SPORTS HALL (SOUNDBITE) (German) SPOKESMAN GERMAN FEDERAL POLICE, ROSENHEIM DISTRICT, RAINER SCHARF, SAYING: "We can only take in as many people here as we can accommodate in decent conditions. Also, we can only assign one person per camp bed so more than 300 or 400 people is not possible. So we have to decide on a case by case basis whether we search another train or not." VARIOUS OF REFUGEES IN SPORTS HALL
  • Embargoed: 16th September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Germany
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA43KOZNTHCMLUKE7HDFRSJTVY0
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  • Story Text: As hundreds of refugees arrive in Germany every day, police in Rosenheim on the border with Austria said on Tuesday (September 1) they were reaching capacity limits.
    The spokesman for the Rosenheim district federal police, Rainer Scharf, said that although authorities were prepared "for this mass immigration at the German-Austrian border to continue, we are reaching our limits."
    "Last night, around 400 people entered the country illegally in the Rosenheim district," Scharf said, standing in the local sports hall turned refugee shelter.
    "We can only take in as many people here as we can accommodate in decent conditions. Also, we can only assign one person per camp bed so more than 300 or 400 people is not possible," he said.
    Germany expects to receive some 800,000 migrants this year, the most of any EU country.
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