Austria sends police officer to Hungary and helps with new border protection unit
For the FPÖ, the plans do not go far enough: “Announcements of more crises with Hungary and Serbia in border protection are by no means enough to stop the developments that are emerging towards the years 2015 and 2016 – illegal border crossings must be prevented and an immediate Asylum stop!” demands security spokesman Hannes Amesbauer.
“The right of asylum must be suspended for foreigners who enter Austria through safe third countries, and rejections at our border must be legalized. Entry centers are to be converted back into exit centers”, explains Amesbauer.
Austria’s cooperation with Hungary and Serbia has already been criticized by NGOs such as “SOS Balkanroute” and “Grandmothers Against the Right”. There is talk of “inhumane horror pictures of Serbian police operations along the EU’s external borders, which are structurally, personally and financially supported by the Austrian Ministry of the Interior”. “SOS Balkan Route” on Facebook. die Small newspaper picked up a report by the NGO last week, according to which Serbian Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin had told the press that Serbia was “no parking lot for scum from Asia”. Photos sent out by the Serbian Ministry of the Interior show “hundreds of men” who “hold their arms above their heads on command, walk bent over and finally in front of the Serbian Minister of the Interior Vulin, who accompanied the operation in a black uniform, also kneel,” writes the NGO.
“It’s unbelievable that Austrian politicians work with people like this,” said the spokeswoman for “Grandmas Against the Right”. Suzanne Scholl, cooperation with the Serbian government. Regarding the easy chance to get asylum in Serbia and the EU country Hungary, she told the APA that this makes it “incomprehensible” that Austria sends people who have fled back there. “We have an inhuman art of dealing with people on the run.”
In the current situation in particular, the Serbian police are an “important and reliable partner in the fight against organized smuggling,” emphasized a spokesman for Interior Minister Karner. The minister will address the “statements circulated in the media” at the next meeting with the Serbian interior minister.