Angry German politician buses dozens of refugees to Merkel
District administrator Peter Dreier arranged the seven-hour journey from Bavaria to show that the region could no longer cope with the refugee influx.
Dreier had warned last year that his district of Landshut had no more space for asylum seekers.
“If Germany is taking in 1 million refugees, mathematically that means 1,800 will come to my district. I will take them and if there are any more, I will send them to your office,” German newspaper Die Welt quoted Dreier as saying.
“I am always in favour of giving these people somewhere dignified to live,” he said. “Not in temporary shelters or gymnasiums for months, or anything like that. We just can’t provide proper accommodation for so many people fast enough, which is why we have to make a statement.”
