Posted on 11/07/2014 5:38:34 PM PST by george76
COLOGNE, Germany — With its wood-paneled piano bar and luxurious spa, the four-star Bonotel assures visitors paying up to $300 per night that it meets the "international standard of a first-class hotel."
But starting next year, the hotel's marble-and-mirrored lobby and "quiet, peaceful ambience" will play host not to indulgent travelers but desperate asylum seekers.
Germany's fourth-largest city spent almost $7 million to buy the Bonotel this summer. Its doors will soon be shut and its 93 opulent rooms filled with asylum seekers, a move underscoring how Europe's economic powerhouse has been overwhelmed by an influx of people seeking a better life amid a continent-wide border crisis.
According to U.N. figures, Germany received 109,600 applications for asylum last year — the most of any country in the world. The U.S. was second, with 84,400.
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Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia. The question is where to accommodate the never-ending stream of arrivals.
Andreas Degen, who spent 17 years working his way up from trainee to manager and owner of the Bonotel, was shocked to learn that the city had purchased the building at auction and then terminated his lease.
“We’re one of the largest privately held hotels in Cologne," he said. "We survived the massive drop in travel after 9/11, the financial crisis, but I never thought that the city would destroy our livelihood. We have 25,000 guests per year and are turning a profit. Thirty people are losing their jobs, and they are losing the tax income from the hotel.”
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This is crazy, can’t think why they’re doing this!?
To encourage millions of other Moslems to also invade.
This why = is why
Germany's fourth-largest city spent almost $7 million to buy the Bonotel this summer. Its doors will soon be shut and its 93 opulent rooms filled with asylum seekers... Germany received 109,600 applications for asylum last year — the most of any country in the world. The U.S. was second, with 84,400.Gosh, I hope the asylum seekers don't expect to homeschool their kids.
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