"It is a warning to the German interior minister to finally get more active," Amnesty International’s German office chief Markus Beeko said in a statement on Monday.
Beeko said it was "incomprehensible and unacceptable" that people looking for help in Germany had to fend for themselves. He urged German authorities to work out a "German-wide concept to protect refugee accommodations."
Official figures showed 280,000 asylum seekers came to Germany in 2016, only a third of the 890,000 arrivals it saw a year before. But the ministry has been struggling to clear a backlog of applications from 2015 amid security concerns over a string of attacks by immigrants.
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