BELGRADE – Serbian police prevented 200 migrants from crossing into the nation’s northern neighbour Hungary and seized cash and weapons, the inside ministry mentioned on Wednesday.
The variety of unlawful migrants and refugees travelling throughout Serbia and different Balkan states to the European Union has been rising in latest months and plenty of are utilizing human trafficking networks, authorities mentioned.
They arrive primarily from Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, in addition to Central Asia and different Center Japanese nations.
Police mentioned that in a raid of an improvised camp alongside the Tisa river in Serbia’s north, additionally they discovered an unspecified amount of money and weapons.
“Quite a lot of migrants had been escorted by the police to the reception centre for migrants, and a quantity had been taken to the suitable prosecutor’s workplace for additional motion,” the ministry mentioned, quoting Aleksandar Vulin, the Minister of the Inside.
The motion of the Serbian police comes after leaders of Hungary, Serbia and Austria on Monday pledged harder measures to include the movement of unlawful migrants into the European Union by way of the Western Balkans, as border management forces change into more and more strained.
Within the assertion Vulin additionally pledged Serbian police would crack down on migrant trafficking gangs.
“Our nation … won't be a parking zone for migrants, and particularly not a spot for scum and bandits,” the assertion mentioned.
On Monday, Serbia, a EU membership candidate, additionally pledged it will align its visa insurance policies with these of the bloc, so migrants couldn't use it as the primary nation of entry.
Within the first eight months of this yr, 86,581 irregular entries had been detected on the exterior borders of the European Union with the Western Balkans, border company Frontex has mentioned, a 190% improve from final yr.
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