There are more and more people smugglers and they are becoming more and more aggressive, which is why border hunters are needed - Bence Rétvári, the parliamentary secretary of the Ministry of the Interior, spoke about this in the current morning program of the M1 channel on Friday morning.
Bence Rétvári said: ten percent of the total of 19,000 prisoners in Hungary, about two thousand people, are foreign human traffickers, but in the Szeged penitentiary this proportion even exceeds twenty percent. And the captured foreigners - mainly Bulgarians, Serbs, Macedonians and Middle Easterners - mean a lot of additional tasks and expenses for the authorities, for example their accommodation or interpretation. Because of all this, a quarter of a billion forints more must be spent from the Hungarian budget every month , he said.
He added that despite the war going on next door, illegal migration is not decreasing, there are also more and more people smugglers and they are becoming more aggressive.
So far this year, 133,000 people, and 122,000 last year, have tried to enter the country illegally. In the big wave of illegal migration in 2015, around six hundred people smugglers were caught by the middle of the summer, while this year 999 were caught by Thursday. He said that the recent shooting in Subotica already indicated that the division of territory between the human trafficking gangs is taking place, and the fight for control over the migrant routes is going on between the criminal organizations.
He underlined that if the Hungarian state did not protect its borders with sufficient force, this could also happen in Hungary.
Meanwhile, in Brussels, they are working on speeding up the procedures against Hungary, they are inviting migrants to Europe, and the sending countries are not stabilizing either, which is why border hunters are needed, said the state secretary. He also spoke about the fact that the border hunters can appear on the southern border from September, first alongside the currently serving policemen, and then gradually taking over the guarding of the border from them.
The border guards carry out their tasks with a wide range of action rights and weapons, the arrest of illegal migration and people smugglers. He said that so far more than 7,700 people have inquired and the Ministry of the Interior is waiting for applications from people between the ages of 18 and 55 with no criminal record and in good physical condition.
Source: MTI
Featured image: MTI/Anikó Kovács
A people smuggler's car caught fire, two people died and nine were injured, Police.hu reported a few hours ago.
According to a statement from the Bács-Kiskun County Police Headquarters, a Georgian man wanted to smuggle fifteen illegal migrants across the country in a car. However, he collided with another car near Bócsa. Three people were killed and eleven people were injured.
On August 5, 2022, at around 2:00 a.m., the Kiskőrösi Police Department wanted to check a Hyundai in the inner area of Tázlár, but the driver drove on at high speed without stopping.
Based on the current data, the man driving the car did not even slow down when he reached the intersection of road 54 and wanted to turn onto the main road without giving priority to the Mercedes traveling on the protected road - from Bócsa in the direction of Kecskemét - and therefore they collided. When the patrol arrived at the scene, they found the vehicles already overturned in the ditch, which had caught fire as a result of the accident.
The driver of the Hyundai - a Georgian citizen - was arrested at the scene. He was transporting fifteen migrants in his car.
Two of the border violators died on the spot as a result of the accident, they were burned inside the vehicle. Among the passengers in the two cars, twelve injured people were taken to the hospital, one of them, a border violator, also lost his life. Four were not injured.
The staff of the Migration Affairs Department of the Bács-Kiskun County Police Headquarters launched an investigation against the Georgian driver for the crime of human trafficking and the crime of negligently causing a fatal road accident.
Source: Police.hu
