Slovenia Deploys Tear Gas Against Migrants on Border

The Slovenian authorities on Friday registered more than 1000 refugees that had entered the country while more than 700 were still at the Obrezje border crossing, 20 kilometres east of the Croatian capital Zagreb, waiting to be allowed in.

The hope of thousands of refugees and migrants of reaching western and northern Europe have been dashed yet again following Slovenia’s decision to temporarily suspend railway traffic from Croatia.

Croatian Interior Ministry confirmed a total of 28 buses with some 1,500 migrants were sent to the border with Hungary from Tovarnik, and an additional 1,000 were transported by train during Saturday.

A group of refugees head to Refugee Center in Brezice, Slovenia, on September 19, 2015.

Aleksandar Vulin, Serbia’s social affairs minister, stated Serbia will take Croatia to worldwide courts if the worldwide border crossings stay closed, arguing that it ought to have been ready for the inflow.

Both the police and the train staff were returned shortly afterwards, according to reports.

On Thursday, the European Union’s migration commissioner, Dimitris Avramopoulos, who declared that walls and violence are no solution and urged Hungary to work with the 28-nation bloc to alleviate the continent’s migration crisis. “We forced them, by sending people up there”.

Hungary, in contrast, has been insisting that most at the border are simply economic migrants seeking better jobs. Croatian police onboard were disarmed and arrested along with the train’s driver, Hungarian officials said.