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With this gruesome incident, the refugee crisis in Europe took a
new turn with the European leaders' immediate attention turning to
it. At the Vienna Conference, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made
a personal remark saying that she was deeply shaken by the awful news.
She stated, "This reminds us that we in Europe need to tackle the problem
quickly and find solutions in the spirit of solidarity."

However, the way in which some European governments handled
the surge in migrants thus far has presented an overall offensive por-

trait. Some governments have refused to accept refugees while others
declined to agree to European Union proposals for a common plan to
overcome the crisis.

The practices of some governments, on the other hand, were "inhu-
mane" in the truest sense of the word: The Hungarian police fired tear
gas at refugees trying to overcome the barriers and enter the EU-
member state. On the Greek Island of Kos, on the other hand, police
sprayed fire extinguishers at migrants and hit them with batons. In a
stadium where up to 2,500 migrants were locked for 24 hours with no
– or very little – food or water, the riot police used sonic grenades to

maintain order among mothers with children and elderly people
waiting for immigration papers. The UN refugee agency called the way
the Greek government responded the migrants "totally shameful." The
International humanitarian-aid organization Doctors Without Borders
[Médecins Sans Frontières] also confirmed that the majority of migrants
do not have access to basic hygiene facilities and are subjected to abuse
by police.

The practices of the governments were not only criticized by the
humanitarian-aid organizations. The French Foreign Minister Laureant
Fabius raised his voice against the policies of the eastern European
states, and particularly slammed Hungary for having a "scandalous"

migrant policy. He said Hungary was going against the values of the
European Union by the fence it's building along its border with Serbia

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