“It’s not your land, get back”, could be heard around 2:30 am from a Slovenian police megaphone on the border. However, despite the warning, Croatian authorities officially informed Slovenia that on Monday about 1,800 migrants will be sent to Slovenia.
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An Austrian state prosecutor says a suspect has been detained in connection with spraying a migrant with an irritant. Thousands of asylum wear bunches of tops.
“Croatia asked us to accept 5,000 migrants per day, but Austria told us they can accept at maximum 1,500”, Bostjan Sefic, state secretary at the Slovenian interior ministry, told a press conference.
Slovenia has accused Croatia of failing to stem the tide of migrants it was sending to the countries’ shared border even though it had promised to do so.
Migrants sleep near a border line between Serbia and Croatia, near the village of Babska, Croatia, Monday, October 19, 2015.
Groups of migrants fought with each other in the morning, aid workers said, after a night spent under open skies lashed by autumn wind and rain.
“Slovenia will not close its border unless Germany closes its border, in that case Croatia will have to do the same”, Croatian foreign minister Vesna Pusic said on Saturday. The group stared, eyes vacant with exhaustion, at nearby Croat cornfields as the man, who gave only his first name, Less, lit a cigarette with shaking hands.
Around half of the refugees have already continued their journey to neighbouring Austria, another key transit country for tens of thousands of refugees, mostly from Syria, seeking to reach Germany.
Refugee family in Sredisce ob Dravi on Slovenian border. He adds “the capacity of this new journey is not enough”. They’re hoping to cross and continue their way into Europe.
Pressure from the refugee crisis mounted elsewhere on the continent. The refugees camp in Opatovac can receive up to 5,000 people.
But she said the country will keep accepting refugees as long as neighbouring Austria and Germany keep their borders open.
A photographer working for Agence France-Presse says he has been assaulted by Croatian border police who also grabbed his cameras and threw them into the mud. “I am in favor of our doing this”. “We point out that the Slovenian police has not accepted that”, the Slovenian Ministry of Interior said in a statement. Wendt argued that “someone must pull the emergency brake now – that can only be Angela Merkel”.
The Croatian police announced that almost 4,000 people were left in the Opatovac refugee camp, where around 50 buses are waiting to transport the refugees to Slovenia.
Viktor Orban erected a razor-wire fence on the Croatian border after closing the frontier with Serbia last month, expanding the measures that are among the European Union’s toughest.
Hungary sealed off its border with Croatia at midnight on Friday; soon afterwards, controls were reimposed on the Schengen border between Hungary and its south-western border Slovenia.
The arrival of hundreds of thousands of refugees this year to Europe’s shores, fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia by boat across the Mediterranean and Aegean, has exposed deep divisions in the EU. Thousands more were stranded Sunday in Croatia and Serbia, waiting to move on.
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Baloch warns “there will be challenges if the process becomes slow or we have a backlog of people”.
