Between September 5 and September 14, 2015, approximately eighty thousand Syrian refugees and asylum seekers streamed along a migration route that ran from Roeske, Hungary, to Munich, Germany, via Budapest, Nickelsdorf and Vienna. The migrants were initially welcomed and received provisions of food and clothing and free transportation. By the end of the nine days, stringent border controls in all three countries had been put in place, and in some instances barbed-wire fences and tear gas were used to repel migrants.