Police ready to manage migrant situation at Croatian border, says govt spox – PHOTOS

Budapest, September 18 (MTI) – Hungary’s police force is prepared to manage the migration situation on the Hungarian-Croatian border, government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs told a press conference in Szeged, in southern Hungary on Friday.

Kovacs said police will use the same methods as they did on the Serbian border to prevent a massive influx of illegal migrants into Hungary and the inner areas of the European Union.

Kovacs noted that the government has now declared a state of crisis due to mass migration for a total of six counties. He said that while Croatia’s immigration system “collapsed within a single day, we have stood our ground for nine months.”

The government spokesman said that over 200,000 illegal migrants have arrived in Hungary so far, more than 172,000 of whom submitted asylum applications.

Commenting on the closed border stations in Roszke and Asotthalom, Kovacs said it is in both Hungary’s and Serbia’s interest that the border stations resume operations as soon as possible. He added that Hungarian authorities need guarantees from Serbian police that illegal migrants will be kept away from the border stations.

Gyorgy Bakondi, the prime minister’s chief domestic security advisor, reiterated that Hungary will do what it takes to protect both its own border and that of the Schengen Zone.

Migrants in Croatia

Photo: MTI

Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters