Chinese Tourist Mistakenly Spends 12 Days in German Refugee Camp - NBC News
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BERLIN — 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.
The well-dressed 31-year-old, known as Mr L., spoke only Mandarin. 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.