Budapest, September 16 (MTI) – The Hungarian police stopped a crowd of migrants which broke through the gate at a crossing point of the Röszke-Horgos station on the border between Hungary and Serbia, on Wednesday. Earlier, the police used tear…
Budapest, September 16 (MTI) – Over the past 24 hours, police apprehended 367 people who illegally crossed the border, the national police headquarters said on Wednesday. Fully 316 were arrested for violating the border fence while a further 51 were…
Budapest, September 15 (MTI) – Hungarian police suspended traffic at the Roszke and Asotthalom border crossings with Serbia at 7am on Tuesday, a department head of the national police said. The Serbian authorities have been duly informed about the measure,…
Budapest, September 15 (MTI) – Police detained a record number of 9,380 people who entered Hungary illegally on Monday, the national police said on Tuesday. Legal proceedings have been launched against 13 people on people smuggling charges and against five…
Budapest, September 15 (MTI) – A group of 16 migrants cut through the fence at the Serbian border near Roszke on Tuesday morning, public news channel M1 reported. Under stricter rules effective of Tuesday, damaging the border fence qualifies as…
Budapest, September 15 (MTI) – From midnight on, crossing Hungary’s border illegally qualifies as a crime, carrying a three-year prison sentence and expulsion from the country. People smugglers may face tougher prison terms than previously. For instance, organisers of such…
Budapest (MTI) – No refugee camp can be established in Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in an interview to commercial broadcaster TV2 on Monday. “The border has not been hermetically sealed but we are simply enforcing the laws that…
Budapest, September 14 (MTI) – The last technical obstacle, a train wagon fitted with a razor wire frame to block the border, was put in place at Roszke on the Szeged-Subotica railway line on Monday evening. From Serbia to Hungary,…
Budapest, September 14 (MTI) – Police sealed off the borders at Roszke crossing point on the border with Serbia at 4.30 pm on Monday, MTI’s correspondent said from the site. The section of the border in question is the point…
Budapest, September 14 (MTI) – The people of Hungary would not want to see their country changed in wake of the “global size migration”, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Monday. Speaking at an oath taking ceremony of police officers…
Budapest, September 13 (MTI) – Hungarian authorities reported that 4,079 illegal entrants, among them 1,026 children, were caught at Hungary’s southern border with Serbia on Saturday. This is the highest number so far in one day, local police spokesman Szabolcs…
Budapest, September 12 (MTI) – There have been 181,014 illegal entries registered so far in Hungary this year with 2,827 illegal entrants detained on Friday alone, Tibor Lakatos, department head of the national police, told a press conference Saturday. The…
Budapest, September 11 (MTI) – Responding to the release of a video showing police in the Roszke camp throwing bags of food and bottled water to migrants, a police spokesperson said an investigation had been launched. The video had been…
Budapest, September 11 (MTI) – Police have questioned the camerawoman who gained notoriety after kicking and tripping over migrants. She was interviewed as a suspect in connection with camera footage of her actions which went viral on the internet. Related…
Budapest, September 9 (MTI) – A group of some 150-200 immigrants have left the railway station of Hegyeshalom at Hungary’s western border to cross to Austria on foot. Laszlo Szoke, the local mayor, told MTI that the immigrants were probably…
Budapest, September 9 (MTI) – A group of 200-250 migrants left the registration point near Roszke, near the Serbian border, on Wednesday morning, MTI’s correspondent reported. The group, composed mostly of young men, pushed past the lines formed by police…
Budapest, September 8 (MTI) – Migrants who earlier broke out of a registration point near Roszke on the border with Serbia have boarded buses organised by police. A group of 100-150 migrants, including families with children, broke through a line…
Ruptly TV – Scuffles broke out between Hungarian police officers and refugees who were trying to board a bus to take them from a temporary camp to a nearby reception centre in Roszke, Tuesday. One man was injured when police officers pushed…
Budapest, September 8 (MTI) – The hundreds of migrants who on Monday afternoon broke out of the reception centre near the border station of Roszke were all transported back to the camp by buses late in the evening, MTI’s correspondent…
Budapest, September 7 (MTI) – Some 1,000 migrants broke through the line formed by police at the Roszke reception centre near the Serbian border on Monday afternoon and left the area, MTI’s correspondent reported from the site. No tear gas…