WorldNews Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - A Chinese tourist who tried to report a stolen wallet during a visit to Germany unwittingly signed an asylum application that got him stranded as a refugee for two weeks in the country's burgeoning asylum bureaucracy. German authorities only discovered their mistake after turning in desperation to a local Chinese restaurant to interpret for them, a Red Cross official said on Monday. "He didn't speak any German or English -- only Mandarin," Christoph Schluetermann, head of a Red Cross refugee center in the northern town of Duelmen, told Reuters after the man from Beijing was released to resume his tour of Europe. Continue reading... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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