“Without any consultation, 1,000 migrants have been brought by train to Magyarboly”, said Hungarian government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs.
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“Croatia is a liar!”, said one, when he realised where he’d been dropped off.
“There was no disarming or arrests”. “There was an agreement about the escort between the police officers from the two sides in advance”.
(Vatican Radio) Thousands of Syrian and other refugees have been dumped by Croatian authorities near the Hungarian border.
At the Hungarian border village of Beremend, police and soldiers at first lined up, backed with two army Humvees mounted with machine guns, to block the path of more than 10 busloads of migrants arriving at the border from Croatia.
Croatia’s Ministry of Health reported that by 9 a.m. on Friday over 14,000 migrants had crossed into the country.
Hungary accused its southern neighbour of aiding and abetting a crime.
However, refugees will not stay long in that town.
However, Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic warned his country’s resources for dealing with the influx were “limited”.
“They will get food, water and medical help, and then they can move on”.
Croatia is part of the EU but not a party to the Schengen treaty, which allows people to travel freely between 26 European countries without showing their passports.
Later on Friday, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker offered Croatia “technical and logistical assistance” for coping with the flood of migrants, during a phone call with Prime Minister Milovanovic.
Migrants told EUobserver the Croatian police had informed them that they would be transported to Zagreb for registration. Having already eliminated almost all checks on its power, PM Orbán’s “creeping dictatorship” is using new-anti immigration laws to turn the country into a “surveillance state”, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and worldwide Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the University Center for Human Rights at Princeton University says.
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The country stopped rail traffic coming from the south after finding 150 migrants on a Zurich-bound train.
