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Europe’s passenger rail network strained by refugees
How do “refugees” have euros for train tickets?
@Jim Norton, calling them “refugees” is a technicality, most of the men are really terrorist plants, which Western Europe will find out soon enough. Not to be political, but if there’s 4 million refugees, why don’t they just take their country back from the insurgents/terrorists as they greatly outnumber both parties…think about that for a moment, and don’t even think about letting a single one of those so-called “refugees” in this country.
Some do, some don’t. Many are not destitute but seeking to rebuild their lives away from a viscious war zone. Many have already paid “traffickers” a lot of cash to ferry them across part of the Mediterranean in unseaworthy, overloaded boats. Also southern European countries often load them en mass onto trains to either pass them onto the next frontier point or to get them to a location where they can be registered.The prime destination countries of choice are Germany and Sweden and you have to cross a lot of borders to reach them.
I wonder why they’re all heading for countries in Western Europe and not Islamic countries closer to home?
Maybe Europe’s got something they can’t find in the old neighborhood?
Show me how stupid all those college students were several years back who were chanting “Hey-hey, ho-ho, Western Civ has got to go!”
Just a few more thoughts…
Many of these Syrian refugees may be Christian. The dictator Assad is an SOB, but he left the Syrian Christian community alone and made sure everyone else did as well, or else!
If I was a Syrian Christian and it looked to me like Assad was going down I’d get the hell out of there too!
The current group of refugees are the ones most able to flee. They have some resources to flee to the best available places. These people need help not xenophobic fear.
In more peacefull times I went a few times to Syria for the narrow guage lines and later to travel behind GEs & the Alstom locos without silencers.
I found Syrians where extremly friendly and helpfull. As pupils learned english from first year at school, it was easy to get arround there. Just taking pictures of trains or governement things, without asking before, could sometimes cause some trouble. I couldn´t imagine, that anything like this war now, could ever happen!
About the new refugies I came into contact with, now. I can only say that they are not stupid people, they are usually not poor either and many speak better french or english than I do.
Will see if it is possible to integrate them somehow? Or if they can get back home after things get better at home?
But for now they just need help.
The rich Arab countrys don´t take any refugies at all. And the poorer neigbours like Lebanon and Jordan have taken so many Syrians already, that they can´t deal with new ones anymore.
Regards