Tiny German village of 102 getting ready to house 750 refugees


For residents of Sumte the only answer that they were allowed to say was yes, when it came to how many asylum seekers they would welcome to their small village, but the reality is that Sumte is far from ready to handle a rapid expansion of their population since the village has only one street, no school, no police and no shops.

Christian Fabel, longtime mayor of Sumte thought that it was a joke when he learned recently from the interior ministry that the original number of 1,000 refugees would be sent to his small village but after many protests citing the lack of infrastructure in Sumte the requirement was dropped to just 750 refugees.

The burden of 1,000 refugees for one village with only 102 residents is absolutely disproportionate – it cannot be compared with any other place in Germany,” the village’s mayor Christian Fabel said at the first meeting with the regional authorities devoted to this issue.

“200 or 300 would be a justifiable number,” he added as quoted by the German Hamburger Abendblatt.

“We have zero infrastructure here for so many people,” Fabel also said, as quoted by the New York Times.

Sadly, the concerns of Mayor Christian Fabel and residents of Sumte have been mostly ignored or dismissed by German authorities, including their request to have security beefed up in Sumte or to have a police station established nearby.

Both proposals were rejected by the deputy district police chef, Matthias Oltersdorf, who dubbed such measures “excessive,” as reported by the German NDR news. Oltersdorf said that Sumte did not need a permanent police presence and added that safety of the villagers would be guaranteed by the fact that street lights would stay lit all night long.

Although German Prime Minister Angela Merkel may have originally had good intentions when it came to welcoming millions of mostly Muslim refugees to Germany, her policies are quickly reigniting the far right movement and giving a voice to Nazi sympathizers who once would have been condemned.

Source: rt.com 

 

 

 

 



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