“We are at our limit locally and cannot take in any more refugees. Integration cannot succeed like this, and the Berlin Senate must finally realize that”.
In the Berlin neighborhood of Lichtenberg, a massive migrant accommodation will be built to house 1,200 migrants. As seen with other projects being built across Germany to accommodate the hundreds of thousands of newcomers that arrive every year, an “information” meeting devolved into shouting and heated discussions. Some locals stormed out. Many of them expressed fear.
The former Hotel Berlin City East, which features three high-rise towers, is meant to help with overflowing conditions at the former Tegel Airport, which as Remix News has previously reported, was once a bustling airport but is now home to row after row of containers housing migrants. Now, some of the migrants there, 740, will be transferred to these hotels as early as this month.
The information session, which was hosted in the hotel where the migrants will be housed, was organized by CDU state parliamentarian Dennis Haustein and was “packed” with 300 people.