Toward the end of last week....down in the Brandenburg region....the cops pulled over this tractor-trailer rig...which had roughly 50 Iraqi refugees onboard....heading north into Germany.
Germans looked at the situation and did the standard checklist thing....removing them from the truck and taking them to a central reception facility near Eisenhuttenstadt.
So a couple of days pass, and Focus reported on this today. It's rather odd....most everyone has disappeared. Kids...women....and men....mostly all gone.
Two individuals left out of the fifty folks. One was a juvenile....the other simply was hiding under a bed.
The German authorities? They have this theory that all were destined for a particular area...like North Rhineland Westphalia....or Frankfurt. They have no intention of allowing the German system to force them into one particular region or city.
As for them all being legit Iraqis? Well....no one from the German side of things has said yes or no to that....just that they identified themselves. Passports weren't mentioned and you kinda wonder if they were fake Iraqis or real Iraqis.
All of this unsettles Germans to some degree (not the political folks but the working-class folks). Here were fifty-odd people in some compound situation, and a couple of days later....gone. No one can even say that they are still in Germany, or if they want to be picked up on some visa.
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