One person was killed and two injured in a shootout in Hajdújárás, Serbia, when migrants fired shots near the Hungarian border.Continue reading
It is more important than ever that the Hungarian border is effectively guarded, because the presence of organized crime raises the threat of arms smuggling in addition to human smuggling, the Prime Minister’s Chief Advisor on Homeland Security said on M1 public television channel.
György Bakondi spoke about this in connection with the increasing pressure on the southern border with Serbia, mass illegal migration, and the fact that
in recent days, weapons, ammunition, and explosives have been found in the hands of border crossers.
He stressed that all efforts are being made to reinforce the border and to “detect and eradicate organized crime trends” in cooperation with the Serbian authorities. At the same time, he said that the EU’s ideas on a new migration pact would “lead to the dismantling of the security system that has been tried and tested in Hungary and accepted by the population.”
He illustrated the situation by saying that if an immigrant who shoots a gun in Serbia applies for refugee status in Hungary, he should be placed in an open refugee camp, and while the procedure is underway, he would be free to come and go. If his application is not processed within three months – which is complete fiction, since he has no documents – he would be deported, Bakondi argued.
This would render the entire border control effort aimed at Hungarian security pointless, and for this reason alone it is unthinkable that we would accept this idea, emphasized the advisor. He added that
the Hungarian government does not support either the distribution of migrants according to quotas or the creation of migrant camps, and this will remain the case, whatever pressure is put on us.
On the current situation in Africa, he said that the military takeover in Niger could have a negative impact on the flow of migrants from the Sahel region, and the scale of the impact could be so large that it could create an unmanageable situation at the borders of the European Union. We are therefore very interested in the cooperation of the countries concerned and of the transit countries with the EU in preventing and deterring migration, he highlighted.
Via MTI, Featured photo via MTI/Rosta Tibor