City authorities in Munich have announced that the city may have reached its “limits”, after at least 13,000 more migrants flocked into the city on Saturday.
According to a city police official who spoke to the BBC on Sunday, “We have reached the upper limit of our capacity.”
This is coming as the German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended the decision to let in more migrants into the country, saying her government was “convinced it was right”.
The mayor of Munich Dieter Reiter says he has been left in the cold by the rest of the country, while other regional government leaders have criticised the chancellor’s recent announcement, that Syrian refugees would be welcome.
There are now more than 450,000 migrants in the country, who have been flocking in since January, and most of them are domiciled in Munich.
It will be recalled that the European Commission announced plans last week for mandatory quotas to share out 120,000 additional asylum seekers among 25 member countries, a decision many of the European Union member nations have rejected.
Munich is the capital of the state of Bavaria and the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg.