Lebanese Family Asks for W. German Asylum
From Reuters
LINDAU, West Germany —
A Lebanese couple with nine children asked for asylum in West Germany after police found them trudging along an expressway like “marching geese,” a police spokesman said Friday.
The couple paid $2,250 to be smuggled from Beirut to the Austrian-West German border where they slipped into Bavaria illegally, he said.
Authorities are considering the couple’s request for asylum, he added.
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