Erstellt am: 4. 9. 2015 - 13:03 Uhr

Tears on the Tracks

Reality Check- Refugees: the stand-off in Hungary, the current UK situation, and a private citizen's spontaneous excursion to Budapest.

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Refugees hold up a sign at the Railway Station in Bicske, Hungary, early 04 September 2015

Pictures of panic as people rush to get on trains and lose one another, dignity stripped in the desperation to reach a destination called safety.

Pictures of riot police standing on platforms, preventing refugees from disembarking trains after discovering that they were not going to be travelling to Vienna (and then on to Germany) but to refugee camps instead.

Pictures of people throwing themselves on train tracks, holding their babies, in desperate attempts to stop being transferred to camps surrounded by barbwire fences.

Pictures of water bottles and baskets of food being passed through windows of trains, those who have helping those who have not, those who are trapped, whose classification has left them unsure of what happens next.

This is happening at train stations in Central Europe, anno 2015.
This is happening in Budapest and Bicske, Hungary, to be more exact.
Alex Wagner reports from Budapest's Keleti train station...

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A picture taken on the 30th of July, 2015 shows British police talking to two men found at the back of a lorry during their search for illegal migrants on Mace Lace, Ashford, Kent near Dover in Britain

Meanwhile in the UK

Political will is notoriously fickle and an example of this could very well be UK prime Minister's ever-changing stance on how Britain will continue to handle the influx of refugees in Europe. What was said yesterday, may just not count tomorrow. Olly Barratt reports...

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With regards to the legality of it all, there are definite risks when it comes to private citizens travelling to Budapest to transfer refugees to Vienna in their own private cars as a gesture of goodwill and definitely not for profit.
Robert Misik was willing to take those risks.