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Migrants in Hungary dreaming of Germany

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Publish Date
Wed, 2 Sep 2015, 5:45AM

Migrants in Hungary dreaming of Germany

Author
AAP ,
Publish Date
Wed, 2 Sep 2015, 5:45AM

Hungarian police have cleared Budapest's main train station of hundreds of migrants trying to get to western Europe, prompting a demonstration by around 200 young men outside.

"Germany! Germany!" the crowd chanted outside Keleti station on Tuesday.

"We want to leave!" and "Merkel!" they cried, referring to the German chancellor. Some held babies as well as train tickets aloft.

The crowd later calmed down and several hundred people, men, women and children, remained outside in the baking sun, many sitting on the ground and in the streets around as police blocked entrances to the station.

The station later reopened, but only for non-migrants, an AFP reporter at the scene said, with police only letting people in who had tickets, ID cards and relevant visas.

"Go down, get out, go down the steps now!" one police man shouted in English at the entrance to the station at a large family from Syria or Iraq who included a woman in a wheelchair.

"I am really pissed off. Why can't the Hungarians just let us go," one Afghan migrant, Haider, 31, said after ripping up his ticket.

"I worked as a translator for the US army for four years. I got here at 5.00am."

An earlier public tannoy announcement at the train station, which has been packed with migrants for several weeks, said no trains would be leaving or arriving "until further notice" and asking everyone to leave.

Some migrants then began shouting as hundreds of police, some of them riot officers, began moving people out although they offered no resistance and there were no clashes.

The announcement came after around 500 migrants tried to board the 9.10am train to Vienna.

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