RIGA - A tailor and clothing designer, a hotel manager, a nurse, and a hairdresser are the first refugees to arrive in Latvia under the EU’s burden-sharing scheme to redistribute asylum-seekers among EU member countries.
The two families from Syria and Eritrea with one preschool-aged child each arrived shortly before midnight on Friday, Feb. 5, around 12 hours ahead of an anti-refugee protest where a journalist from Latvian Radio was attacked by demonstrators while on air.
According to Viktors Pupiks, a duty editor for the public service broadcaster, staff ...
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