‘They told us we were going to Frankfurt, but we've ended up in this wilderness': Migrants turn up their noses at 'boring' German village... and some have already left
- Four more coachloads full of migrants arrive in Sumte, eastern Germany
- First wave of refugees got to village where just 102 people live on Monday
- Influx of 750 people will swell population in village by 700 per cent
- More expected in coming days as tensions rise with angry locals feeling 'overwhelmed'
- See more on Germany's refugee crisis at www.dailymail.co.uk/refugeecrisis
Some
refugees who descended on the tiny German village of Sumte have started
leaving the 'boring' backwater where 'there is nothing to do' - and
accused the authorities of lying to them.
A
couple from Syria, who arrived at the hamlet at lunchtime today walked
out of the refugee holding centre an hour later - announcing; ‘We don’t
want to be stuck here in the wilderness.’
Syrians Morhav, 28, and his wife Noor, 19, said they were going to the train station and on their way to Frankfurt.
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Leaving: Syrians
Morhav, 28, and his wife Noor, 19, (pictured) who arrived in Sumte this
afternoon have already left saying they were going to the train station
and go to Frankfurt
Accusations: Teacher Morhav and his
wife Noor left Syria three weeks ago. They said claimed the German
authorities had lied to them and told them they were being taken to
Frankfurt, but instead they arrived in Sumte
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The
couple, who had arrived in Germany just three days beforehand, claimed
the refugee agency had told them they were being taken to Frankfurt when
they boarded a bus in Hannover.
Morhav,
a teacher, told MailOnline: ‘They [the refugee agency] told us they
were taking us to Frankfurt. But we got off the bus we found that had
taken us to this wilderness.
‘My
wife started crying. Her mother is in Frankfurt. She thought she would
be taken to her family. But instead they have taken us here – to
nowhere.
‘So we are going to go to Frankfurt. I don’t know how we will get there but we will.
‘We have walked across half of Europe already so we are prepared to go a little further.’
Four
more bus loads carrying 200 more refugees arrived in the tiny German
village of Sumte last night – quadrupling the population.
Young
men, women and children were driven into the sprawling new migrant
housing complex in Sumte, a hamlet in eastern Germany close to the river
Elbe, under cover as darkness.
The new arrivals brings the refugee population to 300 - almost three times the original population of 102.
A
further 200 refugees are expected in the coming days. And 250 have been
allocated to the centre, created out of a series of empty government
offices.
Influx: Tension
is rising in Sumte, eastern Germany, where the 102 locals says they are
being 'overwhelmed' by migrants as people arrive to sleep in an empty
government office block (pictured, behind guarded gates)
Perfect location: Sumte was chosen as
the site for a sprawling refugee centre because it is has empty
government offices (pictured) which can sleep 1,000
!['Underwhelmed': Married Morhav and Noor were left unimpressed with their new surroundings. ‘They [the refugee agency] told us they were taking us to Frankfurt. But we got off the bus we found that had taken us to this wilderness,' said Morhav](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/11/04/17/2E1A500F00000578-3303546-image-a-34_1446658683963.jpg)
'Underwhelmed': Married Morhav and
Noor were left unimpressed with their new surroundings. ‘They [the
refugee agency] told us they were taking us to Frankfurt. But we got off
the bus we found that had taken us to this wilderness,' said Morhav
But some, like married couple Morhav and Noor are unimpressed with their new surroundings and have already left.
They fled the fighting in their native Syria a month ago after the home town became a war zone.
Morhav told MailOnline: ‘We did not want to leave Syria but we had to leave for our lives.
‘The
journey was very difficult. We crossed the sea from Turkey to Greece
and then through Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. Slovenia was very bad.
There was nothing to eat, nothing to drink and we had to sleep outside.
It was very cold.
‘Now
I want to do something to pay back all the people who have helped us. I
am a teacher but I will do anything I can to repay our debt.’
Meanwhile Morhav offered a unique insight into the ethnic make-up inside the Sumte camp.
He
claimed that less than a third of the residents of the 750-capacity
centre are Syria, with the majority from Afghanistan. He said this was
the same all through Europe.
'Overwhelmed':
The first wave of 100 refugees arrived on Monday with a further 200 last
night to instantly quadruple the size of the town. A further 450 are
expected to arrive in the coming days
New home: The fist migrants who
arrived in the nondescript town apparently didn't like what they found
with one complaining, 'it's boring' and moaned there was no television
or PlayStation
Morhav
told MailOnline: ‘Only about 30 per cent of the people on the bus and
at the centre are Syrian. Some 50 per cent of the people there are from
Afghanistan – this is what we found all through Europe. About ten per
cent are from Iraq and another ten per cent are from Africa.’
German
welfare group Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund, that runs the Sumte camp, has
refused to reveal the nationalities of the refugees taken to the
centre.
Tension
among the 102 original residents, who fear their community will be
overwhelmed, and the local services swamped by the new arrivals have
been rising.
The
town's Neo-Nazi councillor, Holger Niemann, warned crime will rocket
with the influx of migrants to a tiny German village where the
population will be outnumbered by seven to one by the arrival of 750
refugees in the coming days.
They
had fought against plans for 1,000-capacity refugee centre in their
village. The authorities overruled their objections but agreed to scale
the camp back to 750. The first 100 refugees, including Syrians, arrived
on Monday night.
The
sleepy village has become the symbol of Germany's struggle to cope with
the overwhelming influx of migrants streaming into the country every
day by the thousand.
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