Book about refugees settled in Germany launched in Chisinau

Chisinau, 1 July /MOLDPRES/ - A book titled, Simply Going to Leave, Children’s Escape, signed by the deputy director of the Deutsche Welle Academy, journalist Ute Schaeffer, has been unveiled at the Chisinau-based B.P. Hasdeu Municipal Library.    

The event was organized by the Embassy of Germany in Moldova, German Centre Akzente and the host institution.   

In her greeting message, German Ambassador to Moldova Ulrike Knotz said, inter alia, that the problem of refugees from diverse countries, willing to reach EU, was extremely important and painful, as there were human beings behind them, a half of whom were minors under 18 years of age. Presently, over 800,000 refugees asked for asylum in Germany, the diplomat said.     

Contacted by MOLDPRES, the book’s author, Ute Schaeffer, said the protagonists of the book were refugees coming from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Guinea and Nigeria. 

“One million refugees came to Germany in 2015 alone. These are just some of the 60 million people from all over the world who flee from violence, war and poverty – and nevertheless they are twice as many than throughout the 2014 year. Germany should have a policy of integrating the refugees, and the latter need to bring a contribution to the country’s economic development, learn to be useful for the society in which they want to integrate,” Ute Schaeffer stressed.  

In the end of the event, the author answered more questions by those present, who brought into discussion the problem of refugees and the way it might be settled.

(Reporter N. Roibu, editor L. Alcaza)