17,500 Refugees Arrived in Germany Over Weekend
September 7th, 2015Via: CNN:
The massive flood of refugees in Europe is pushing Germany and Austria to a tipping point.
Thousands of refugees have poured into the two countries in just the past two days, trying to escape the bombings, terrorists and dire conditions ravaging their homelands.
More than 16,000 have streamed into Austria since Saturday, Burgenland state police spokesman Wolfgang Bachkoenig said Monday.
“We must now, step by step, go from emergency measures to a normality that is humane and complies with the law,” Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann said.
Virtually all the refugees who entered Austria continued on to Germany, Bachkoenig said.
But even Germany, a country with a long history of helping refugees, said it can’t keep taking in asylum seekers at the current pace. More than 17,500 migrants arrived in just the city of Munich over the weekend, police said.
