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'We Can't Stay HERE' Furious Migrants Bemoan Their Shelter Conditions in Merkel's Germany
Express (U.K.) ^ | Thu, Dec 1, 201 | Rebecca Perring & Monika Pallenberg

Posted on 12/01/2016 10:41:19 PM PST by nickcarraway

ANGRY migrants waiting to claim asylum in the promised land of Europe have bemoaned the lack of comforts at shelters in Angela Merkel’s Germany.

With the showers and washing machines broken for weeks on end, desperate asylum seekers say they cannot continue to live in the “unworthy conditions”.

Around 92 refugees live in a gymnasium in Wackenbergstrasse, in Pankow, Berlin, as they wait to claim asylum.

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But the unhappy migrants have complained an emergency light that is kept on all night keeps them awake.

Some have even turned to drink and drugs to block out their living conditions, according to reports.

Sascha Langenbach, the spokeswoman for the refugee agency, reports of depression, trauma and alcohol abuse in the shelter. She said: ”We will also have to deal with the topic of drug abuse."

Pankow's mayor Sören Benn has been inundated with letters of complaints, with some migrants claiming they have developed diseases and rashes from living in the gym.

One letter reads:"We live in dirt. And we do not know at all whether we can ever leave the gym."

Another said: "The gym hall meant as a provisional solution has evolved into a permanent state which is unsustainable for people. "It can not be that people in Germany have to live under these unworthy conditions.”

And a mother-of-seven said: “We cannot stay here any longer,” while Tofigh, a young man who escaped from Iran, added: "We don't trust anyone anymore.”

In Berlin, there are still 20,000 refugees living in shelters and around 3,000 in gym halls like the one in Wackenbergstrasse.

Birgit Geist, who coordinates the volunteering in the gym hall, said: "People are breaking down here, one after the other.

“Since summer, they were promised that they will be able to move by the end of the year.

"However, for hygiene reasons alone are the conditions no longer acceptable for the residents."

Another volunteer, Sarah Neumeyer, says the migrants struggle to sleep, adding: “In the hall, it is so bright at night that people have problems sleeping.”

But Mr Benn has attempted to reassure the migrants, telling them: "I will see what I can do. Hang in there and do not go crazy.”

More than one million migrants have entered Germany since Chancellor Angela Merkel announced her ill-fated open for refugee policy in a bid to stem the migrant crisis.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Germany
KEYWORDS: germany; hijrah
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1 posted on 12/01/2016 10:41:19 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Pack them up and ship them home.


2 posted on 12/01/2016 10:42:56 PM PST by Cowboy Bob
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To: nickcarraway

Deport them back to Syria.


3 posted on 12/01/2016 10:44:38 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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>> ANGRY migrants waiting to claim asylum in the promised land of Europe have bemoaned the lack of comforts at shelters in Angela Merkel’s Germany.

The Left dicks people around. I’d be pissed too.

Take back your sovereignty, Germany — in a humane way of course.


4 posted on 12/01/2016 10:45:57 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: nickcarraway

Bums. muslim or white American.


5 posted on 12/01/2016 10:47:44 PM PST by onedoug
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To: nickcarraway
The public bathrooms in Damascus are so odiferous that they assault the nose from many meters away.

It is not the fault of the German authorities that the refugees consume illegal drugs.

The conditions described in this article are an upgrade from what I have seen in the Muslim world.


6 posted on 12/01/2016 10:47:58 PM PST by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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Merkel will keep them and send all the Germans to Syria


7 posted on 12/01/2016 10:49:31 PM PST by ari-freedom (The Social Justice War is over and we won!)
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To: nickcarraway

Send em back on rickety boats.


8 posted on 12/01/2016 10:49:49 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Gene Eric

Humane meaning quick deaths.


9 posted on 12/01/2016 10:50:14 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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But Mr Benn has attempted to reassure the migrants, telling them: “I will see what I can do. Hang in there and do not go crazy.”

They were already crazy...that is why we won’t deal with this


10 posted on 12/01/2016 10:52:16 PM PST by ari-freedom (The Social Justice War is over and we won!)
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To: nickcarraway

Don’t like your new digs?

Go home.

Problem solved.


11 posted on 12/01/2016 11:08:50 PM PST by Paleo Pete (When the sun comes up, nitrogen turns into daytrogen.)
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To: nickcarraway
With the showers and washing machines broken for weeks on end, desperate asylum seekers say they cannot continue to live in the “unworthy conditions”.

If they didn't vandalize them, they'd be working, now wouldn't they?

If they are living in conditions that they think they are above having to live in (*unworthy*????? REALLY????? Think much of yourselves, dontcha?) then it would behoove them to take care of stuff for a change.

Yeah, I know. What a novel concept.

12 posted on 12/01/2016 11:11:23 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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I guess they'll get better accommodations once they start their rape sprees.
13 posted on 12/01/2016 11:14:07 PM PST by Bullish (The fly on Hillary's forehead knows)
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To: nickcarraway

Maybe the Krauts are waiting until the invaders get fed up waiting and ask for a lift back home... Hee!


14 posted on 12/01/2016 11:22:15 PM PST by W. (Practice does NOT make perfect, only perfect practice makes perfect pistolcraft!)
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To: nickcarraway

The law of unintended consequences respects no border.


15 posted on 12/01/2016 11:30:40 PM PST by Company Man (Our work has just begun.)
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To: metmom

The custom of shower raping requires showers.


16 posted on 12/02/2016 1:35:28 AM PST by mindburglar (When Superman and Batman fight, the only winner is crime.)
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To: nickcarraway

Well, if they crap on the floor and destroy the facilities of course it’s going to suck. Deport, deport, deport.


17 posted on 12/02/2016 1:53:27 AM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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Another said: "The gym hall meant as a provisional solution has evolved into a permanent state which is unsustainable for people. "

So bulldoze it. They can sleep under the trees.

18 posted on 12/02/2016 2:24:41 AM PST by Drew68
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To: nickcarraway

If they were here in the US, they’d have lawyers by now and be suing us.


19 posted on 12/02/2016 2:32:22 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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Boy isn’t that the truth.


20 posted on 12/02/2016 3:59:37 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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