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German president Joachim Gauck visits asylum residence in Bad Belzig

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German President Joachim Gauck talks to refugees living in the residence.

German president Joachim Gauck visits asylum residence in Bad Belzig

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Two police cars and a red bomb squad car stand in front of a house of the refugee residence.

German president Joachim Gauck visits asylum residence in Bad Belzig

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German president Joachim Gauck during his visit, talking to the refugee residence director Rose Dittfurth.

German president Joachim Gauck visits asylum residence in Bad Belzig

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German president Joachim Gauck during his visit, talking to the refugee residence director Rose Dittfurth.

German president Joachim Gauck visits asylum residence in Bad Belzig

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German president Joachim Gauck talks to refugees, who live in the residence and to the director Rose Dittfurth.

German president Joachim Gauck visits asylum residence in Bad Belzig

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German president Joachim Gauck talks to refugees, who live in the residence and to the director Rose Dittfurth.

German president Joachim Gauck visits asylum residence in Bad Belzig

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German president Joachim Gauck talks to refugees, who live in the residence and to the director Rose Dittfurth.

German president Joachim Gauck visits asylum residence in Bad Belzig

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German president Joachim Gauck talks to refugees, who live in the residence and to the director Rose Dittfurth.

German president Joachim Gauck visits asylum residence in Bad Belzig

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German president Joachim Gauck talks to refugees, who live in the residence and to the director Rose Dittfurth.

German president Joachim Gauck visits asylum residence in Bad Belzig

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German President Joachim Gauck talks to Refugees living in the Residence.

German president Joachim Gauck visits asylum residence in Bad Belzig

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German President Joachim Gauck talks to refugees living in the residence, surrounded by the media.

German president Joachim Gauck visits asylum residence in Bad Belzig

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German President Joachim Gauck talks to Refugees living in the Residence.

German president Joachim Gauck visits asylum residence in Bad Belzig

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German President Joachim Gauck talks to refugees living in the residence.

German president Joachim Gauck visits asylum residence in Bad Belzig

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German President Joachim Gauck shakes hands with refugees living in the residence.

German president Joachim Gauck visits asylum residence in Bad Belzig

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The Refugee Residence in Bad Belzig, built in a Scandinavian holiday home style. It is regarded as a showpiece for refugee living.

German president Joachim Gauck visits asylum residence in Bad Belzig

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German president Joachim Gauck sits with refugees, employees and other politicans for a conversation.

German president Joachim Gauck visits asylum residence in Bad Belzig

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German president Joachim Gauck beside a refugee mother with her baby, smiling into a camera of another resident.

German president Joachim Gauck visits asylum residence in Bad Belzig

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German president Joachim Gauck after his visit and the talks with the refugees leaving the residence.

German president Joachim Gauck visits asylum residence in Bad Belzig

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German President Joachim Gauck talks to the media after his visit of the Refugee Residence.

German president Joachim Gauck visits asylum residence in Bad Belzig

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German President Joachim Gauck talks to the media after his visit of the Refugee Residence.

German president Joachim Gauck visits asylum residence in Bad Belzig

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German President Joachim Gauck talks to the media after his visit of the Refugee Residence.

German president Joachim Gauck visits asylum residence in Bad Belzig

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German President Joachim Gauck talks to the media after his visit of the Refugee Residence. Behind him are some residents of the refugee shelter.

German president Joachim Gauck visits asylum residence in Bad Belzig

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German President Joachim Gauck after his visit.

German president Joachim Gauck visits asylum residence in Bad Belzig

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German president Joachim Gauck leaves the Refugee Shelter and enters his car.

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During the ongoing asylum debate in Germany, the German president Joachim Gauck visits a Asylum Seekers Residence in Bad Belzig. 135 refugees from Syria and Afghanistan wait here for the authorities to decide about their asylum application.

During ongoing asylum debate in Germany, the German president Joachim Gauck visits a Residence for Asylum Seekers in Bad Belzig, Brandenburg. Gauck makes a tour thorugh the asylum shelter in the Weitzgrunder Weg and talks to the residents.

In the Residence live acutally 135 Refugees, mostly from Syria and Afghanistan and wait for the German authorities to decide about their asylum application.

Critics say the Asylum Shelter is not representative because most residences for Asylum Seekers in Brandenburg in very poor condition and the one in Bad Belzig, build in a Scandinavian holiday home style is regarded as a showpiece.

In Brandenburg currently live around 1800 Refugees, most of them (444) are from Afghanistan.

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Theo Schneider

Berlin, Germany, Europe

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