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Migrants: Budapest station open, assault on trains that don't leave

Attack on trains when, at 8,15 this morning, the authorities reopened the doors of Keleti station, the most important in Budapest - But the trains don't leave: the railways have announced that connections with the West are stopped, until new order

Migrants: Budapest station open, assault on trains that don't leave

Assault on trains when, around 8,15 this morning it was reopened the main entrance of Keleti station in Budapest, the most important of the Hungarian capital. Immediately hundreds of migrants, who for two days have been perched in front of the Keleti station after the clashes in recent days with the Magyar police forces, invaded the station platforms again and stormed a train stopped at one of the platforms. It is a train bound for the west but which will not cross the Hungarian borders, stopping in Sopron, a city on the border with Austria. Many migrants believe that with the direct train to Sopron they will be able to reach Germany in the next few days.

The railways have announced to the public that for the moment no new international trains. "In the interest of rail transport safety, the company has decided that direct connections between Budapest and Western Europe will not operate until further notice," Hungarian Railways announced in a statement.

The president of the European Commission, Jean Claude Juncker, intends to bring the number of asylum seekers to be redistributed in European countries to 32 to 120, a hypothesis that would certainly ease the situation in Italy and Greece, countries closest to the crisis fronts, but which it is not at all appreciated by the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

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