Denmark reopens rail link to Germany after migrant concerns

A DSB spokesman says police asked them to cancel the services.

Denmark, however, has made it clear it will not be lenient toward refugees.

According to the Danish police, 3,000 foreigners have arrived in the country between Sunday and Wednesday.

Many migrants say they want to go on to Sweden, Norway or Finland, because they have relatives there or believe that conditions for asylum-seekers are better.

She met the man, whom she called Abdul, shortly after he arrived at Copenhagen’s Central Station from Germany, and took him to the marina where a friend moored their boat.

Many were from Afghanistan or Iraq and expressed relief at having arrived in Sweden.

Journalists were banned from the highway, and a no-fly zone was put in place above it, on the grounds that helicopters and low-flying planes would “scare those marching”, police said.

Austria’s national railway company, Osterreichische Bundesbahnen, said Thursday it has suspended train traffic to and from Hungary until further notice due to the massive congestion created by the influx of migrants and that no tickets are being sold.

On Wednesday, however, Danish authorities stopped all trains connecting the country to continental Europe through Germany in order to prevent refugees from crossing the border.

Instead of trying to register unwilling arrivals who refuse to have contact with Danish authorities, police said they will allow them to pass through Denmark.

“If all the focus is on redistributing quotas of refugees around Europe, that won’t solve the problem, and it actually sends a message that it is a good idea to get on a boat and make that perilous journey”, British Prime Minister David Cameron told lawmakers in London.

The ads, three in Arabic and one in English, promised that “rejected asylum seekers” must leave the country “as quickly as possible”.

When the new approach launched by the Danish police became known, several hundred people left temporary shelters in Rodby and Padborg and headed for Copenhagen.

Fourteen people were detained in the last week for smuggling migrants between Denmark and Sweden.

“Imagine for a second it were you, your child in your arms, the world you knew torn apart around you”, Juncker said. Some migrants said it was so bad that they wanted to return across the border to Serbia, but Hungarian police wouldn’t let them. “That’s what the Danish government has said before and we assume that all countries follow the rules we have”.

Two trains carrying more than 200 migrants are being held in Rodby, a major port with ferry links to Germany.