BELGRADE – Germany will not return to Serbia people from the Middle East and Africa that managed to reach the EU across the territory of Serbia and then filed for asylum in Germany, said Oliver Platzer, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry in the southern state of Bavaria.

We would return these people, in line with the Dublin Regulation, to the EU countries exclusively, such as Hungary, Austria or Italy, which they entered first and registered there as asylum seekers, Platzer told Politika.

The Belgrade-based daily reports that, despite Brussels’ insistence that the EU’s backing to Serbia does not include plans for building collective accommodation centers for migrants, Bavaria, as a German state worst hit by the tide of refugees, supports this idea.

We support the opening of such centers in Hungary, Italy, Greece and Serbia.  We believe that the people should be registered as soon as they put their foot on the European soil, before they come here, Platzer said.