Volunteers claimed 24-year-old Syrian died waiting outside office Berlin
They said he developed influenza after standing in snow for hours
Today it emerged the story was a lie to drum up sympathy for migrants
Male volunteer who posted story on Facebook had made it all up
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www.dailymail.co.uk/refugeecrisisThe reports that a Syrian refugee had fallen ill and died after queuing for days outside of an overworked immigration processing office in Berlin, has been unmasked as a lie.
The tragic story of a 24-year-old man succumbing to influenza after waiting outside the registration centre in freezing temperatures was shared on social media all over the world yesterday.
However, the volunteer worker who shared the story on social media had made it all up to win sympathy and support for the plight of the migranrs in the German capital, Berlin police reports.
A German immigration worker named Dirk V., had posted the story about the 24-year-old asylum seeker who had developed influenza while waiting in the queue.
He wrote how the Syrian man had became sicker and sicker, before suffering a cardiac arrest. He said he had taken the man into his own house, but it was too late to help him.
The notice read: 'We mourn for you. You were 24 years old. You came from Syria. You survived so much. You did not survive LAGeSo.
'You got fever, chills and then a cardiac arrest. You died last night. We cry for you.'
LAGeSo is the German acronym for the State Office for Health and Social Affairs where refugees in the capital go to register.
In addition, a death notice for the unnamed migrant had also appeared in a local newspaper after being posted on Facebook by Dirk V, and then shared all over the world.
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