Refugee threatens to jump off building in Berlin

An Iraqi asylum seeker threatened to jump off a refugee registration centre building in Berlin on Thursday, reportedly due to being unhappy that he had been waiting to be registered at the centre for 21 days.

Refugees encircled the registration centre in Moabit, an inner city locality of Berlin, according to RT-linked news service Ruptly, as the man - as of yet unidentified - threatened to jump.

Ruptly provided a live stream of the incident:

German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel on Monday said that Germany could receive one million people seeking refugee status or political asylum this year, up from the 800,000 people that had been originally predicted.

However, the borders were closed earlier this week as Chancellor Angela Merkel criticised the lack of joint action among EU members states to address the growing influx of refugees.

"This joint European asylum system cannot just exist on paper, but must also exist in practice. I say that because it lays out minimum standards for accommodating refugees and the task of registering refugees [and migrants]," she told a joint news conference in Berlin.

Germans have been praised, however, for their positive attitude towards the influx of refugees.

In Moabit, a number of local residents helped organise an event involving refugees and the distribution of free goods: