Refugee crisisA week that will change Europe

Forensic police officers inspect a parked truck in which up to 50 migrants were found dead on a motorway near ParndorfEnlarge image

The truck in which 71refugees were discovered dead on the Austrian A4.

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Gruesome discovery in an illegal truck, burning refugee homes in Germany and the Mediterranean Sea as a mass grave. In all that Brussels and Berlin do not have any answer.
    By Matthias Drobinski
    A week ends in Europe, in the hundreds of refugees died out in the Mediterranean and in a refrigerated truck, parked on the Austrian motorway A 4. One could helpless politicians and officials see this week, heard strong words and declarations of intent. One could trace how in Saxony Heidenau violence escalated and then German Chancellor Angela Merkel was abused when she visited the site; but you also could see how many people want to help those who come.
    It was a week of horror and anger, shame about the hatred and indifference - and pride in the courage of many people. It was a week that gives an idea of ​​how much will change this refugee crisis Germany and Europe.

    The people in the truck were still trying to free himself

    On the night of Friday, the Austrian authorities Bargen 71 corpses from the hold of the refrigeration truck: smugglers apparently had the 59 men, eight women and four children, including a one and a half year old girl who crammed into the truck to make it as over Hungary and Slovenia to Austria bring to. Exactly when the people died, who came probably from Syria, was still unclear on Friday.Presumably, they are stifled. The ORF reported that the people would still trying to free himself - the loading space is bulged outward and partially slashed. The bodies will now be autopsied in Vienna.
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    Tote refugees in AustriaPolice informed about details of the gruesome Funds

    In the parked tractor vehicle 71 dead have been recovered. Police have arrested several people in Hungary. Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner spoke again against border controls.
    The Austrian police assumes that a Bulgarian-Hungarian tug ring has to be responsible for the death ride. The holder of the truck, a Bulgarian of Lebanese origin, the two alleged driver and a fourth man sitting on remand. The true backers are likely to be difficult to convict; the smuggling business is well organized, there are seven billion euros, according to estimates of the United Nations implemented a year - money squeezed from the refugees who pay about EUR 10 000 for the land.