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Germany still on the front line for welcoming migrants

2020-09-22T15:43:54.200Z


Angela Merkel continues to open the doors to refugees, particularly from campsen Greece, but is more cautious than in 2015 to defuse criticism of the AfD.


Correspondent in Berlin

Of all European countries, Germany is the one that issues the most asylum rights - 116,000 in 2018 - and takes in the most minor, sick or unaccompanied children.

Again on September 15, the Merkel government, at the forefront of the Twenty-Seven, announced that it would receive 1,553 refugees from five Greek islands.

But for many, across the Rhine, the account is not there.

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On Sunday, under the slogan "

there is fire and we have room"

, several thousand people marched in Berlin, Cologne, Munich and Leipzig to demand greater participation of their country in the humanitarian crisis born of the fire in Moria camp.

In the capital alone, they were 5,000 gathered in the multicultural district of Moabit, where the aunt of Alan Kurdi, the little drowned Syrian boy who became the emblem of the tragedy, urged the Twenty-Seven

not to close. eyes and turn your back ”

to migrants stranded on European coasts.

"We must

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Source: lefigaro

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