France has welcomed its first group of migrants to have arrived from Syria and Iraq via Hungary and Germany.<br /><br /> 53 people are being housed in university halls of residence in Champagne-sur-Seine, 80 kilometres south of Paris.<br /><br /> The Red Cross is expecting up to a thousand to arrive in France by Friday.<br /> <br /><br /> A Champagne-sur-Seine, 53 réfugiés viennent d'arriver d'Allemagne. #refugies pic.twitter.com/GVHU0AfqcF— Clémentine Maligorne (@ClemMali) September 9, 2015<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> “I am happy at the moment,” one man said,“afterwards I don’t know how I will feel. Now I am very happy, people are very friendly, thank you so much, merci, merci beaucoup.”<br /><br /> Red Cross workers provided breakfast for the new arrivals before taking them to their temporary accommodation.<br /><br /> They are expected to stay there for up to three months while their asylum applications are processed.
