Czech TV web article, translated Some are coming from the home country a few months, some for years. But all agree that staying in a Czech refugee facilities, the so-called detention, was the worst experience of their entire journey. "They treat you there like criminals, they are normal prisons," said the refugees.
They caught them on the train and had to immediately pay a fine of 50 euros
The common denominator of the stories of these people is where their journey ended, or where it broke the Czech foreign police. All is caught, they took the train from Budapest to Berlin. From their perspective, the sad paradox is that it was actually the last leg of their journey by train.
Refugees have to pay for food and lodging while in detention. Each of them pays $10 = CZK 242 per day: CZK 112 for food and CZK 130 for housing. No free lunch to be found here.
While Germany may be good to the homeless, the Czech Republic is not. Sounds reasonable to me.