13,000 chairs set up at Reichstag in symbolic plea over overcrowded migrant camp

Activists place chairs as part of a protest against racism and for the admission of more migrants by the European Union in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany (Markus Schreiber/AP)

Activists have set up thousands of chairs outside the German parliament in Berlin to underline their calls to take in migrants from an overcrowded camp on a Greek island.

The 13,000 chairs set up in front of the Reichstag building are meant to symbolise the inhabitants of the Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, as well as the readiness of some German cities and states to take migrants in.