friends, we have switched the language of our live feed to English
(finally):
http://bordermonitoring.eu/ungarn/2015/09/liveticker/
Here are the latest two updates:
12:36 We are back with the live feed from Hungary, and we decided to
switch to English. As different media have already reported, the
Budapest Keleti train station is open, refugees are back inside and are
boarding trains. However, it seems that all international rail
connections have been suspended. We estimate that there are still
several thousand refugees around the train station here.
Since there are no international trains, refugees take the regional
train to Sopron, a border town with Austria.
Ironically, Sopron was the site of the Pan-European Picnic, a peace
demonstration on the 19th of August 1989 credited as a significant event
contributing to the lifting of the Iron Curtain. To quote Wikipedia:
At the picnic several hundred East German citizens overran the old
wooden gate, reaching Austria unhindered by the border guards around
Árpád Bella. The Hungarian borders were opened on 11 September, and the
Berlin Wall fell on 9 November. — Wikipedia (en) (de)
So how about a Pan-European Picnic 2015?
12:47 We just learned from a reliable source that the train to Sopron
was stopped 30 km outside Budapest, in Bicske, where an open refugee
camp is situated. Police has evacuated the train and all refugees were
transferred to the camp.
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