“Der Spiegel”: no documents relating to the opening of the border Merkel – Banker

              The archive of the Chancellor’s office does not have the documents relating undertaken by Chancellor Angela Merkel at the beginning of September 2015. Crucial decision to open the border for refugees from Syria camped out at the train station in Budapest – said on Friday “Der Spiegel”.
           

 
 
 

Merkel decided “without written preparation,” – said the chancellorship, answering the question of the German weekly editorial. Despite searching “not found the relevant documents relating to this matter,” – he explained the employee of the office. She added that in situations requiring a quick decision exchange of information is carried out orally, without written documentation.

 

The attempt by Merkel after consultation with the then Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann on the night of 4 to 5 September decision to open the border without inspection and admission of immigrants heading from Budapest through Austria towards Germany is considered a key event refugee crisis.

 

September 4 before noon, several hundred immigrants camped out for weeks at the station in Budapest They set off on foot in the direction of the highway Austria. The Hungarian authorities have given their disposal buses, which transported them near the Austro-Hungarian border. Faymann Merkel asked for the opening of the border, arguing that it is not able to stop immigrants. The head of the German government realized that the crowd of refugees, which in accordance with EU law Germany should turn back, you can stop at the border only by force, using tear gas, water cannons and batons.
 

German Chancellor and her colleagues have come on the night of 4 to 5 September to the conclusion that the photos showing German police clash with immigrants would be fatal to the prestige of Germany. “No one wonders at this point whether between refugees may be militants of the Islamic State” – writes the weekly “Die Zeit”, which reconstructed in the latest edition minute of the night’s events.

 

Decision Merkel today is criticized by opponents of its policy of refugee. Some critics believe that the one-time admittance of refugees from Budapest was indeed a humanitarian act and therefore justifiable, but to continue the open-door policy for the next few months was a serious mistake, which led to a crisis in Germany and across the EU.
 

From Berlin Jacek Lepiarz (PAP)

 

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