Several dozen Afghan refugees found temporary shelter in Giessen on their way to England.
According to the newspaper “Welt am Sonntag”, the British authorities initially refused to allow them to continue their journey after arriving at Frankfurt Airport from Tashkent in Uzbekistan, because some of them did not meet the English entry requirements.
The British embassy in Germany could not be reached on Sunday.
According to the newspaper report, she had previously said "to all those who have the right to enter the UK to organize this as soon as possible".
A spokeswoman for the Hessian Ministry of Social Affairs told the German Press Agency on Sunday that 18 children, 19 women and 20 men from Afghanistan had been temporarily housed in the initial reception facility in Giessen. For how long is unclear at first. "We took them in for humanitarian reasons," added the spokeswoman. On Sunday she was unable to say in detail why the Afghan asylum seekers could not continue their journey to England. lhe.