Hungary’s Police Say They Are Abiding By Schengen Rules
- 3 Sep 2015 10:05 AM
The Hungarian national police headquarters (ORFK) has said in a statement that officers are seeing to border control duties in complete accordance with regulations prescribed by the Schengen codex. The statement added that the police presence in and around Budapest’s Keleti railway station is being beefed up with civil guards since the number of migrants has grown dramatically over the past five days.
The vast majority are Syrian nationals, illegal migrants wishing to travel on to Austria and Germany who do not possess the proper documents to do so, the police statement said. It noted that Hungarian, German and Austrian police are carrying out joint patrols to monitor trains traveling along the Budapest-Vienna-Munich route.
Meanwhile, Hungarian and Slovak police are doing the same on trains bound for Bratislava.
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