For one Syrian, normality in Germany is happy ending


  • World
  • Wednesday, 02 Sep 2015

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - It was an unlikely end to a journey from Syria marked by death threats and constant fear - an ice cold beer in a first class train seat with a view of the German countryside.

When Rabie Hajouk fled his country's civil war he had not set out for the country he now calls home, and when he related the first part of his journey last week while waiting in Hungary, he had not expected the final bit to be so easy.

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