Recounts the 2015 Balkan refugee crisis at Budapest’s Keleti station, detailing the desperate situation and subsequent movement toward Austria.
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Ten years after the 2015 refugee crisis, an article reflects on the events at Budapest’s Keleti train station in September 2015. Thousands of refugees, including Syrians, Afghans, and Pakistanis, were stranded at the station due to Hungary sealing its southern border with barbed wire. These individuals, who were attempting to reach Western and Northern Europe via the Balkans, lived in precarious conditions near the station, relying on aid from NGOs and local residents as the municipal and state authorities were absent. Tensions rose, with refugees protesting and seeking train tickets. Eventually, several thousand refugees marched towards Austria, and the city organized buses to transport them to the Austrian border, leading to the clearing of Keleti station.
