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The police arrested almost five hundred border violators in twelve hours on Sunday
Budapest – There were 36 migrants in a minibus, the driver ran away, and they are still looking for him.
The police arrested 425 border violators between six in the morning and six in the afternoon on Sunday, and 44 people were refused entry to Hungary illegally, the National Police Headquarters announced on the police.hu website.
They wrote: In Bács-Kiskun County, a total of 112 border violators were arrested in fifteen cases in Kelebia, Bácsbokod, Csikéria, Kisszállás and Kecskemét. In Csongrád-Csanád county, the patrols stopped a total of 260 border violators in ten cases in the administrative areas of Ásotthalom, Mórahalom, Szeged and Szatymaz.
Three in Baranya county near Mohács, nine in Szombathely in Vas county, 36 in the outskirts of Újhartyan in Pest county, while in Budapest the XXIII. five border violators were arrested in the district.
During the inspection, the illegal migrants declared themselves to be citizens of Palestine, Algeria, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, or Turkey, but they could not credibly prove their identity or the legality of their stay in Hungary, therefore the police officers will escort them back to the temporary security border checkpoint – they emphasized.
They also indicated that in the last 12 hours, in four cases in Bács-Kiskun county, the police prevented a total of 44 people from entering Hungary illegally. In three cases, criminal proceedings were initiated against three people for human trafficking.
In the morning, a Hungarian van was checked on the M5 highway near Újhartyán, and it was occupied by 36 migrants who claimed to be Syrian. The driver stopped the vehicle, got out and ran away from the scene, the police are looking for him.
Four men from the county, who claimed to be Syrian, Afghan, and Somali, were also traveling in a car driven by a UK, with Hungarian license plates, that was stopped on the outskirts of Bács-Kiskun Kisszállás.
Not later, near Kecskemét, on the M5 highway, the police checked a Polish pickup truck driven by a Ukrainian man, with 33 foreign nationals claiming to be citizens of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Somalia in the cargo area.
In none of the cases were the passengers able to prove their identity and the legitimacy of their stay in Hungary, so they were escorted back to the temporary security border, while the drivers were prosecuted for human smuggling.