We’ve been following the news from “welcoming” Germany that has agreed to take up to 10,000 Syrian refugees. The first ones arrived just two weeks ago amid much fanfare, here.
Now we see that 75 have gone missing and are believed to have been “trafficked” to Denmark further demonstrating the mess the European Union is in with “asylum shoppers” looking for a better deal in another country.
Why didn’t they like Germany? Surely they were being fed well! I can only guess it is because Germany isn’t giving permanent residency; they can only stay until the Syrian civil war is over.
So where did these poor struggling refugees with children get the cash for this escape? And, who are they, Syrian rebels with children for cover?
From The Local:
A group of 75 Syrian refugees have disappeared from their emergency accommodation, days after German authorities caught them trying to cross into Denmark.
On Sunday authorities in the north German state of Schleswig-Holstein pulled over a coach and found 85 Syrian refugees, among them 30 children, thought to have paid Italian smugglers to take them to Denmark.
All bar [but?–ed] a few of the Syrians were then housed in a temporary asylum seeker accommodation in Neumünster, from where most of them suddenly disappeared, reported NDR broadcaster on Tuesday.
Police arrested three Italian bus drivers also on board who now face charges of people smuggling after refugees on the coach said they had paid up to €6,500 for their passage across Europe.
Officers also discovered €14,000 in cash in the vehicle, but could not confirm whether this was cash passengers had paid the drivers, Zeit newspaper said.
According to the police, refugee smugglers supply customers with an “emergency telephone number” that clients can ring if their journey is interrupted and they are separated from their escorts.
It was likely that the Syrians put in the Neumünster asylum home had been supplied with such a number, NDR said.
This tactic works because the shelters are not secure, closed facilities – legally, refugees must be allowed freedom of movement. “We are not a closed establishment, residents may move freely,” centre chief Ulf Döring told the station.
He added that he was not surprised that they had vanished. Three refugees have stayed behind at the Neumünster home. Seven others are thought to still be at a different centre.
In other Syrian refugee news, the UN is pressuring France to take in Syrians.
And, in the US, a House Committee heard from Catholic contractors who said that they were scouring America already looking for cities (with existing Syrian residents) in which to place the refugees they hope they will be paid to resettle in FY2014 (which, by the way, begins in 5 days).
Speaking of 2014, any day now the Presidential Determination will be released that lays out the President’s wishes for how many (and from where ) refugees will be coming to the US. Watch for it!
See our archive on Germany with news about the growing resentment by citizens toward the mostly Muslim migrants.