Hungary Stops Migrants by Shutting Down Budapest Train Station Tuesday September 01,2015

 

Hungary has grabbed the headlines in recent days, for scenes almost unprecedented in the migrant crisis that is gripping Europe.

BUDAPEST, Hungary - Chanting "Freedom! Freedom!," angry migrants demanded to be let aboard trains bound for Austria and Germany after Hungary temporarily suspended all rail traffic Tuesday September 01,2015 from its main Budapest terminal and brawny police forced hundreds of migrants out of the train station.

Around 3,000 migrants are currently waiting at Keleti station in the capital, with many camping outside the main entrance guarded by police

Police closed Budapest rail station after hundreds of undocumented travellers, many of them refugees fleeing war-torn home nations, tried to board trains bound for Germany

 

Nearly 2000 were left camped outside Budapest's Keleti Station,waiting to be given permission to travel west - but many are asking why the migrants are desperate to leave Hungary, despite it being within the EU.

Migrants wait to board a train to Germany at the Keleti Railway Station in Budapest

 

Note

Under an EU rule known as the Dublin Regulation, refugees should seek asylum in the first EU country they enter. But with countries such as Italy and Greece saying they cannot cope with the numbers, many have headed north. 

Many of the migrants currently trying to reach Germany via Hungary probably arrived first in Greece. But they left the EU to travel through Macedonia and Serbia before crossing back into Hungary. Now the Hungarian government says it is trying to apply EU law, but it clearly doesn't want them to stay