EUROPE-MIGRANTS/HUNGARY-KELETI STATION Migrants camp outside Budapest's main station, board train to border

Record ID: 141750

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/HUNGARY-KELETI STATION Migrants camp outside Budapest's main station, board train to border
  • Date: 6th September 2015
  • Summary: BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (SEPTEMBER 6, 2015) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF BUDAPEST'S KELETI STATION MIGRANTS RESTING AND EATING OUTSIDE STATION MIGRANTS CAMPING OUTSIDE STATION CHILD SEARCHING THROUGH BELONGINGS PILED ON THE GROUND WOMAN WITH LITTLE CHILDREN MIGRANTS QUEUING FOR FOOD VARIOUS OF WOMAN DISTRIBUTING BANANAS TO MIGRANTS (SOUNDBITE) (English) 23-YEAR-OLD VOLUNTEER, MARIA BRUNNER, SAYING: "I stayed here this night. I came 12 o'clock yesterday, and there were very few people here then. And then maybe a hundred arrived through the night but most have left again. And now we just have like a new rush of people, but it's not very many, like a hundred or something." VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS WASHING AT WATER STATION VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS STANDING AND WAITING OUTSIDE STATION POLICE AND MIGRANTS POLICE STANDING OUTSIDE STATION MIGRANTS SLEEPING IN UNDERPASS SYRIAN REFUGEE SITTING ON THE GROUND (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) SYRIAN REFUGEE, ISSAM, SAYING: "I feel an improvement because I have left a situation of war and reached a place of safety here, thank God and now our destination will be Germany, God willing." MORE OF UNDERPASS POLICE WALKING IN UNDERPASS POLICE STANDING IN FRONT OF TIMETABLE INSIDE STATION TIMETABLE GROUP OF MIGRANTS BOARDING LOCAL TRAIN TO GO CLOSER TO BORDER MAN HOLDING CHILD, WAGGING HIS FINGER AND SAYING (English): "Hungarian, no good, no good." BEFORE BOARDING TRAIN / ANOTHER MAN TELLING JOURNALISTS HE'S FROM SYRIA VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS ON BOARD TRAIN POLICE INSIDE TRAIN STATION
  • Embargoed: 21st September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Hungary
  • Country: Hungary
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA3DYK0LAYTGEM5IQ7UR5DEAZZ7
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: A smaller number of migrants camped outside Budapest's Keleti station on Sunday (September 6) morning, a day after Hungarian authorities provided buses to take some 4,500 migrants to the Austrian border to continue their trek towards Germany.
    Volunteers handed out fruit to migrants waiting to board local trains that'd take them closer to the border with Austria, where warm welcome awaits in stark contrast to the chaotic scenes many of the travellers had witnessed in Hungary.
    "I stayed here this night. I came 12 o'clock yesterday, and there were very few people here then. And then maybe a hundred arrived through the night but most have left again. And now we just have like a new rush of people, but it's not very many, like a hundred or something," said Maria Brunner, a 23-year-old volunteer and medical student from Norway currently living in Budapest.
    A Syrian refugee taking shelter in the uncrowded underpass outside Keleti station expressed his eagerness to go to Germany.
    "I feel an improvement because I have left a situation of war and reached a place of safety here, thank God and now our destination will be Germany, God willing," said Issam, who came from a small village in the war-torn country.
    Later a group of migrants, many from Syria, waved their tickets as they boarded a local train towards the border with Austria. One of the travellers said "Hungarian, no good, no good" as he got on the train with his daughter.
    Hungary, a major transit point for migrants heading into the heart of the EU via the Balkans, is ruled by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who said on Friday (September 4) Europe would be "lost" if it let all the migrants in and said he did not want to live alongside a large Muslim community.
    Orban announced on Saturday that Hungary will deploy police forces along its southern border after Sept. 15 to stem a refugee influx and also send in the military if parliament approves a government proposal.
    "The big changes will come after Sept. 15... and we'll bring the border under control step by step," Orban told a news conference. "We'll send in the police, then, if we get approval from parliament, we'll deploy the military."
    "It's not 150,000 (migrants coming) that some want to divide according to quotas, it's not 500,000, a figure that I heard in Brussels, it's millions, then tens of millions, because the supply of immigrants is endless," the right-wing premier said.
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