EUROPE-MIGRANTS/GERMANY FLENSBURG Migrants spend night at Flensburg central station for trains to Sweden

Record ID: 141251

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/GERMANY FLENSBURG Migrants spend night at Flensburg central station for trains to Sweden
  • Date: 10th September 2015
  • Summary: FLENSBURG, GERMANY (SEPTEMBER 10, 2015) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF MAIN RAILWAY STATION SODA AND WATER BOTTLES MIGRANTS SLEEPING IN HALLWAY OF STATION TWO CHILDREN SITTING ON BAGS MAN ENTERING TRAIN POLICE CARS NEXT TO PLATFORMS VARIOUS OF EMPTY PLATFORM WITH TRAIN AND SIGN READING (German): "COPENHAGEN" MIGRANTS IN CENTRAL STATION INFORMATION SIGN FOR MIGRANTS GOING TO SWEDEN, NORWAY, FINLAND READING (English): "DO NOT CROSS DENMARK" MEMBER OF REGIONAL PARLIAMENT AND SPOKESPERSON OF FLENSBURG ALLIANCE 'FOR A COLOURFUL FLENSBURG', SIMONE LANGE, ON PHONE (SOUNDBITE) (German) MEMBER OF REGIONAL PARLIAMENT AND SPOKESPERSON OF FLENSBURG ALLIANCE 'FOR A COLOURFUL FLENSBURG', SIMONE LANGE, SAYING: "More than 150 migrants have arrived here at the station in Flensburg over the course of yesterday afternoon and evening. Actually, they wanted to go on, but a continuation of the journey was not possible because there were no trains to Denmark. We could house about half of the migrants in Boostedt in the emergency shelter, unfortunately not the other half. And they slept here at the station." LANGE'S HANDS (SOUNDBITE) (German) MEMBER OF REGIONAL PARLIAMENT AND SPOKESPERSON OF FLENSBURG ALLIANCE 'FOR A COLOURFUL FLENSBURG', SIMONE LANGE, SAYING: "We try to get through to the people. Last night we were able to organise private shelter for two families with children. Because we could not expect them to sleep at the station. We do cooperate with them well. We can communicate well with them. We ask them where they want to go, and it is up to them to decide whether to stay or to go." VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS AND POLICE AT TRAIN TICKET MACHINE
  • Embargoed: 25th September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Germany
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA5RUCDSUWJ75US36ZSX5G2Q2VE
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  • Story Text: Hundreds of migrants have spent the night at the central station in the northern German city of Flensburg after Danish police closed a motorway and rail links on Wednesday (September 9) in a bid to stem the flow of refugees heading north to Sweden.
    Local alliance 'For a Colourful Flensburg' has been working to provide support for the refugees. Their spokeswomen, Member of Regional Parliament, Simone Lange, reported that about for about half of the migrants room could be found at the emergency shelter in near-by Boostedt but the other half had to spend the night at the station.
    "More than 150 migrants have arrived here at the station in Flensburg over the course of yesterday afternoon and evening. Actually, they wanted to go on, but a continuation of the journey was not possible because there were no trains to Denmark," she said.
    "Last night we were able to organise private shelter for two families with children. Because we could not expect them to sleep at the station. We do cooperate with them well. We can communicate well with them. We ask them where they want to go, and it is up to them to decide whether to stay or to go," she said.
    On Wednesday (September 9) two trains carrying about 240 people were stopped by Danish police in Rodby. Refugees on board were refusing to leave the train, police said.
    A motorway connecting the Danish peninsula Jutland to Germany reopened on Thursday (September 10), Danish authorities said, a day after it was closed when some 300 refugees, including children, began walking on it.
    Some limits on train traffic remained, however.
    Danish police said on Wednesday that 3,000 "foreigners" had arrived in Denmark between Sunday and Wednesday.
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