EUROPE-MIGRANTS/MUNICH ARRIVAL UPDATE Hundreds more refugees arrive in Munich from Austria

Record ID: 141611

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/MUNICH ARRIVAL UPDATE Hundreds more refugees arrive in Munich from Austria
  • Date: 7th September 2015
  • Summary: MUNICH, GERMANY (SEPTEMBER 7, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF GROUPS OF REFUGEES WHO STEPPED OFF TRAIN FROM AUSTRIA WALKING PAST INSIDE MUNICH TRAIN STATION, ACCOMPANIED BY POLICE FAMILY CARRYING BAGS, YOUNG GIRL CARRYING SLEEPING MATTRESSES WALKING PAST ANOTHER FAMILY WITH TWO YOUNG CHILDREN WALKING PAST REFUGEES LOOKING AT CLOTHES HANDED OUT BY VOLUNTEERS REFUGEES AT FOOD STAND INSIDE STATION (SOUNDBITE) (German) MUNICH POLICE SPOKESMAN, WERNER KRAUS, SAYING: "Over the entire weekend, some 20,000 refugees arrived here in Munich. This morning, we expect more trains with 1,000 or 2,000 refugees." WOMAN CARRYING SMALL BOY WALKING PAST SMALL CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS STANDING IN LINE REFUGEES WALKING PAST INSIDE STATION
  • Embargoed: 22nd September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Germany
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: General
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  • Story Text: Between 1,000 and 2,000 more migrants are expected to arrive in Munich on Monday (September 7), after an estimated 20,000 came over the weekend, Munich police told reporters.
    "Over the entire weekend, some 20,000 refugees arrived here in Munich. This morning, we expect more trains with 1,000 or 2,000 refugees," said police spokesman Werner Kraus.
    After 71 people suffocated in the back of a truck abandoned on an Austrian highway en route from Hungary, and as thousands headed from Budapest towards Austria on foot, Vienna had agreed with Germany to waive rules requiring refugees to register an asylum claim in the first European Union country they reach.
    German Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to allow the influx caused a rift in her conservative bloc, with her Bavarian allies saying she had pushed ahead without consulting the federal state administrations dealing with the issue on the ground.
    The political rift is greater across Europe, with Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban accusing Berlin of encouraging the influx.
    Austria has also suspended its random border checks after photographs of a Syrian toddler lying dead on a Turkish beach showed Europeans the horror faced by those desperate enough to travel illegally into the heart of Europe, which is deeply divided over how to cope.
    Germany has said it expects to receive 800,000 refugees and migrants this year, and urged other EU members to open their doors.
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