Footage Emerges of ‘Refugees’ Abusing Police, Throwing Food and Water

“We estimate that around 4,000 have arrived – and I don’t think that is the end of it”, said Helmut Marban, spokesman for the police in the Austrian province of Burgenland.

The breakthrough came after days of confrontation and chaos, with Hungary’s right-wing government deploying dozens of buses to take migrants from Budapest. Some individuals in Vienna are donating train tickets for refugees heading onwards across Europe, the UNHCR said, while others elsewhere are giving food and supplies.

Both Germany and Austria have said they would take responsibility for the mass of humanity already on the move – chiefly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan – into Eastern Europe.

Despite the Hungarian government’s insistence that last night’s transfer of those seeking asylum on buses was a “one off” Austria is still expecting the many thousands who chose to approach the country’s borders on foot.

Police prevented them from joining the M1 motorway, directing them onto a national road.

He said the transport had been arranged as a one-off, because of fears for people’s safety.

Some of those walking were thought to be among 800 people who public TV channel M1 said walked out of a refugee camp outside the city of Debrecen on Saturday morning and took trains to Budapest.

Austria’s Chancellor Werner Faymann said that after talks with his German counterpart Angela Merkel, the two countries would allow the asylum-seekers in due to the “emergency situation” in Hungary.

After days of being held back, at least 6,500 migrants crossed from Hungary into neighboring Austria on Saturday, with several thousand continuing West, hoping to reach Munich, Germany. “Anyone who believes that you can sit out this problem is wrong”, Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz said Saturday, according to the Guardian, referring to the thousands stuck in Hungary a day before. Hungarian officials continue to call for a quick solution in the ongoing refugee crisis.

Conditions at the station became increasingly tense, with more than a 1,000 migrants setting off on foot for Austria late Friday in defiance of the authorities.

The flow of people risking rickety boats to cross the Mediterranean shows no sign of abating, despite more trips by sea ending in disaster.

With Budapest estimating that over 156,000 migrants have entered the country illegally since the beginning of the year, Prime Minister Orban has warned that Hungary would also build a barrier on its border with Croatia, if undocumented immigrants began arriving from that direction.

Many have refused, determined to get to the richer and more generous countries of northern and western Europe, mainly Germany.