Германия: 500 бежанци бяха посрещнати в столицата

Around 500 refugees arrived at the train station at Schoenefeld Airport in Berlin, having travelled from Munich by special train commissioned by the Deutsche Bahn rail company, Sunday. Red Cross activists and volunteers were present to check refugees' health, if needed, and to supply them with food, water and other vital provisions. Groups of Berliners waited at the station with banners and signs to show their support for the refugees. Then the refugees were told to board buses ready at the station to take them to refugee shelters in the city. Some 350 of the refugees will be taken to Potsdam, while the rest will go to Charlottenburg, to a shelter near the Olympic Stadium. The refugees, many of whom come from Syria fleeing the war and the so-called Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), had to cross south-eastern Europe in harsh conditions after Hungarian authorities closed train and bus stations and stepped up border patrols. The government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban has blamed other European countries for the crisis, in particular Germany, which last month stated it would grant asylum seekers from Syria special status.