‘Critically ill’ children found in a migrant lorry escape from hospital TWO
“People at Budapest’s Keleti railway station demanding to be allowed free passage are demanding something which is not possible under European legislation”, government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said.
Hungarian police have arrested five people over the deaths in the refrigerated lorry, which had been parked for about 24 hours before officers arrived and found the partially decomposed remains. “Think with the brains of an American”, said Zoltan Kovacs, a government spokesman. They didn’t want to stay in Austria.
The arrest was made late Saturday. “It’s a miracle we survived all that”. “Like this razor wire barrier they built”.
Police in Hungary said that as of Tuesday, 776 suspected human smugglers had been detained this year, compared to 593 in all of 2014.
Austrian authorities have stopped hundreds of refugees and arrested five traffickers along the highway from Hungary where the abandoned truck was found near the Hungarian border.
Over the past three days, Hungarian police said they had caught 8,792 migrants crossing into the country, majority from Serbia.
As the migrants frequently use unconventional, and risky, methods to reach the EU, they are often risking their lives. “So they get into vans and into trucks, and they die”.
“The Hungarian police have cheated us so many times, I will only believe this in Austria“.
“I’m not going to let the train go, it’s far too full!” a flustered stationmaster shouted down his mobile phone beside one Vienna-bound train, his hand shaking. Typically, refugees are put into temporary housing until they can apply for asylum.
Austrian authorities stated that a precise rely of the our bodies within the truck was troublesome due to their state of decay.
According to the IOM, the largest populations arriving in Greece and Italy came from Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea and Nigeria. Millions more sit in camps in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon. However, “more than 200 refugees” were detained in Austria alone.
Slovakia, which along with the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland blocked the sharing plan, rejected criticism it is not doing enough to help.
On Monday afternoon, there were long lines of migrants at the terminal’s ticket windows and police said a statement on the situation there would be forthcoming. On Thursday, Austrian officials said the number of dead people was estimated to be 20 to 50.
Transit countries in eastern Europe and the Balkans are struggling to cope.
Germany’s Thomas de Maiziere, Britain’s Theresa May and France’s Bernard Cazeneuve held talks on Saturday on the issue, on the sidelines of a meeting in Paris on transport security.
“Every European nation needs to take its fair share of the responsibility in dealing with this crisis“.
Human trafficking cases are multiplying.
“It is nearly impossible to take effective action against the smuggling networks”, said Tuesday Reitano, expert at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime.