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At Least 170,000 Asylum Seekers Arrive in Germany in Just Three Months

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Germany's Interior Minister said that about 170,000 people seeking asylum arrived in Germany in the first three months of 2016. 08.04.2016, Sputnik International

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At Least 170,000 Asylum Seekers Arrive in Germany in Just Three Months

08:28 GMT 08.04.2016 (Updated: 11:54 GMT 09.02.2023)

© AP Photo / Markus SchreiberHundreds of migrants waits in a tent to continue their registration process at the central registration center for refugees and asylum seekers LaGeSo (Landesamt fuer Gesundheit und Soziales - State Office for Health and Social Affairs) in Berlin (File)

Hundreds of migrants waits in a tent to continue their registration process at the central registration center for refugees and asylum seekers LaGeSo (Landesamt fuer Gesundheit und Soziales - State Office for Health and Social Affairs) in Berlin (File) - Sputnik International

Germany's Interior Minister said that about 170,000 people seeking asylum arrived in Germany in the first three months of 2016.

BERLIN (Sputnik) – About 170,000 people seeking asylum arrived in Germany in the first three months of 2016, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said Friday.

"In the first quarter of 2015, 500,000 people arrived in Germany and some 170,000 [arrived in] the first quarter of 2016. Therefore the number… decreased by 66 percent [on a quarter-on-quarter basis]," de Maiziere said at a briefing.

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Europe has been beset by a massive refugee crisis, with hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants fleeing their crisis-torn home countries in the Middle East and North Africa in search of asylum in stable and wealthy EU states.

Germany has become a key destination for the migrants fleeing war and poverty since the start of 2015. The country’s interior ministry estimates that Germany received around 1.1 million registered migrants last year alone. At the same time, German media reported, citing interior ministry officials, about 500,000 undocumented migrants currently staying in the country.