Bavarian politician sends bus with refugees to Angela Merkel's office in German capital
An irate politician in the German state of Bavaria has sent a bus packed with 31 Syrian refugees to Chancellor Angela Merkel's office in protest against her liberal immigration policy.
Peter Dreier, head of the south-eastern town of Landshut, said his rural area was buckling under the strain of a mass influx that brought 1.1 million migrants to Germany last year.
Local citizens had told him "it's time we set a limit," Mr Dreier said.
"We are trying to help these people integrate. But that won't work if this year we face another wave of one million, or even more."
Calling the trip "an act of desperation," he said he had warned Ms Merkel about his plans in a phone call last October, and had announced it to her office on Wednesday.
The Syrians, escorted by police, arrived after a seven-hour journey to Ms Merkel's office where they were greeted by a large throng of media but no representatives of her Government.
Protesters gathered at the Chancellery building in Berlin, waving a German national flag and chanting
"Merkel must go".
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