Record 300,000 asylum seekers registered in Germany in 2015: Report
Over 300,000 asylum seekers have been listed in Germany since the beginning of 2015, a report says.
So far this year, "302,415 asylum seekers have been registered" in various states of Germany, Berlin-based daily Die Welt reported on Saturday, citing details of a telephone conference between the interior ministers of German states.
Germany’s Federal Office for Migrants and Refugees (BAMF) had earlier predicted that 450,000 asylum seekers would come to the country in 2015, but it was later forced to revise the forecast upwards to an unprecedented 500,000 people.
BAMF President Manfred Schmidt said on Friday that a "record" 79,000 asylum seekers, mostly from crisis-hit Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, flocked to Germany in July.
Berlin received over 202,000 asylum requests in 2014, 60 percent higher than that of the previous year.
Unofficial BAMF estimates show that the number of asylum applicants in the current year will exceed 600,000.
Officials in German states have frequently called on the federal government to provide them with more aid to deal with the refugees’ influx better.
The great number of migrants in German cities has caused a host of problems for these people.
Official figures indicate that violent incidents against refugees’ have grown sharply.
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