According to European rules, refugees are supposed to seek asylum in the first country they reach. That hasn’t always been possible in the chaos of the past few weeks. Since Sunday, an estimated 3,000 people have crossed the border into Denmark, but most of them don’t want to register here. Instead, their sights are set on Sweden.
On Wednesday, some 300 refugees left an intake center near the German border and started walking north along a major highway. Footage from Danish television shows them chanting, “Sweden, Sweden.”
In another Danish border town, refugees refused to get off trains arriving from Germany because they were afraid of being registered — which could prevent them from seeking asylum in Sweden…
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