EUROPE-MIGRANTS/HUNGARY CONVOY Convoy of Austrians reaches Budapest to pick up migrants

Record ID: 141723

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/HUNGARY CONVOY Convoy of Austrians reaches Budapest to pick up migrants
  • Date: 6th September 2015
  • Summary: BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (SEPTEMBER 6, 2015) (REUTERS) + NIGHT SHOTS + ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** PEOPLE GATHERING NEAR CONVOY OF CARS VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS WAITING TO GET INTO CAR OF VOLUNTEER WOMAN GETTING INTO CAR (SOUNDBITE) (English) MEMBER OF CONVOY FROM VIENNA, GRESSIE, SAYING: "We were first on the Austrian-Hungarian border, then in Gyor, and then we decided to come to Budapest because we heard that people were waiting here. So it's a long day for everyone, and we're going now. Ok?" (SOUNDBITE) (English) UNIDENTIFIED SYRIAN REFUGEE, SAYING: "Four children,... my wife... to go Vienna, after to go Germany. Thank you very much." CAR DRIVING AWAY MIGRANT WOMAN HOLDING BABY INSIDE CAR (SOUNDBITE) (English) MEMBER OF CONVOY FROM VIENNA, ANGELICA, SAYING: "Because you can see, these people need our help, that's why we're coming to pick them up and bringing them to a safe country." ANGELICA WALKING AND HOLDING HANDS WITH MIGRANT CHILD ANGELICA CLOSING CAR TRUNK MIGRANTS GETTING SEATBELTS FASTEN IN BACK OF CAR (SOUNDBITE) (English) MEMBER OF CONVOY FROM VIENNA, HUBERT, SAYING: "I think Europe has a tradition which is tolerance, which is human rights, which is good governance, and I think all these people who're fleeing from war, who're fleeing from terror, they have a right for a safe home. I think it's our duty to provide, to help them find a safe place." MIGRANT WAVING FROM CAR CAR DRIVING AWAY / MIGRANT IN BACK OF CAR MAKING VICTORY SIGN CONVOY MEMBERS TALKING WITH MIGRANTS CONVOY MEMBER, ANA, TALKING CONVOY MEMBERS AND MIGRANTS WALKING TO CAR CONVOY MEMBERS STANDING AND TALKING NEXT TO OPEN CAR TRUNK (SOUNDBITE) (English) CONVOY MEMBER FROM VIENNA, ANA, SAYING: "We're trying to help coordinate the situation with cars. People came from Vienna came here to pick people up to bring them to the border, let them cross the border by foot, walking, so nobody can be legally charged. They'll pick them up from the other side of the border of Austria again to bring them further to Vienna." CAR DRIVING AWAY
  • Embargoed: 21st September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Hungary
  • Country: Hungary
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA2V5A0SN4EAUV90ZWQBIBOHF1B
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: A convoy of cars arrived in Budapest on Sunday (September 6) to pick up migrants wishing to travel westward and take them to the border with Austria.
    Some of the cars were part of an earlier convoy that set off from Austria planning to ferry the migrants over the border and beyond.
    "We were first on the Austrian-Hungarian border, then in Gyor, and then we decided to come to Budapest because we heard that people were waiting here. So it's a long day for everyone," said Gressie, picking up a refugee family wishing to travel to Germany via Vienna.
    Answering a call made on Facebook after the Hungarian authorities prevented migrants from making the crossing last week, the cars came from as near as Austria and as far afield as Germany.
    "Because you can see, these people need our help, that's why we're coming to pick them up and bringing them to a safe country," said Angelica from Vienna.
    "I think Europe has a tradition which is tolerance, which is human rights, which is good governance, and I think all these people who're fleeing from war, who're fleeing from terror, they have a right for a safe home. I think it's our duty to provide, to help them find a safe place," echoed Hubert, also from Vienna.
    As well as transport, the volunteers brought supplies including food, clothes, sanitary towels and sweets which they distributed to the mainly Syrian migrants hoping to catch trains westwards.
    "We're trying to help coordinate the situation with cars. People came from Vienna came here to pick people up to bring them to the border, let them cross the border by foot, walking, so nobody can be legally charged. They'll pick them up from the other side of the border of Austria again to bring them further to Vienna," explained Ana from Vienna.
    Austria and Germany have thrown open their borders to the wave of refugees making their way north and west from hot spots in the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere. Hungary has been letting the human tide move on after holding it up for days.
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