Tag: migrants
Balkans 02.03.20 | 12:31

First casualties reported in the border crisis between Greece and Turkey

First casualties are reported on the border between Greece and Turkey, where tens of thousands of migrants are attempting to cross over after the Turkish forces gave up on holding them back. One child has reportedly drowned on the island of Lesvos, where Greek villagers have organized to push back the...
Balkans 01.03.20 | 21:20

Greek police continued using tear gas against large groups of migrants on the border with Turkey

Greek police is using tear gas and flash grenades today to disperse the groups of migrants that are trying to cross the border along the Evros/Marica river after Turkey stopped patrolling its end of the border. There are no major groups of migrants crossing the border so far, and only a few injuries...
Macedonia 01.03.20 | 12:14

Macedonian police stops 78 illegal migrants near Stip

Macedonian police intercepted 78 illegal migrants near Stip. The group was being driven along the Stip – Kocani road by two men from Veles at 4 in the morning. They tried to evade a police checkpoint but were eventually stopped and detained. The migrants are being interrogated to determine their...
Balkans 29.02.20 | 19:00

Turkey accuses Greece of violating the human rights of the migrants who seek entry

Turkey accused Greece of violating human rights after Greek border guards used tear gas to disperse migrants attempting to cross the Evros/Marica river. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that Turkey has no obligation to stop the migrants any more, but that Greece must treat the coming asylum...
Balkans 28.02.20 | 15:49

Greece shuts down border crossing to Turkey to stop migrants

Greece on Friday closed the Kastanies/Pazarkule border crossing with Turkey amid reports that Turkey is set to open the gates to Europe for refugees and migrants on its soil. Hundreds of migrants gathered in the border area along the Evros River anticipating Turkey‘s move, state broadcaster ERT...
Macedonia 19.02.20 | 11:00

Five migrants found in a van near Strumica

Strumica police stopped a van with Skopje licence plates in which they found five illegal migrants. The men are from Afghanistan and Pakistan. The 62 year old driver was detained while the migrants were sent to the Skopje and Gevgelija transit centers.
Balkans 14.02.20 | 11:45

V4: Viktor Orban warns that migration pressure may increase on Hungary’s southern border

Migratory pressure on Hungary’s southern border is expected to increase as the weather improves and more and more migrants set out, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Thursday at the crossing point of Roszke on the Hungary-Serbia border, where he inspected the border barrier with Slovakia’s...
Macedonia 13.02.20 | 11:25

Macedonian police intercepts 53 illegal migrants

Macedonian police intercepted a group of 53 illegal migrants who were being transported near Strumica. The migrants were in a van driven by a man from Valandovo. The group included 37 Afghans, 12 Pakistanis, and a few people from India, Iraq and Egypt, who were sent to the Skopje and Gevgelija migrant...
Balkans 07.02.20 | 10:23

V4: Migrant caravan heading through Serbia to Hungary

Several hundred migrants have gathered on the Serbian side of the Hungary-Serbia border in a bid to enter Hungary, a Hungarian public television correspondent reports from the border on Thursday afternoon. Migrants have been organising their plans for weeks in closed groups on social media, a news correspondent...
Macedonia 03.02.20 | 18:12

Macedonian – Pakistani gang charged with torturing migrants on the border with Serbia

One Macedonian citizen and three Pakistani citizens were charged with migrant trafficking. The group was followed in October and November 2019, when they kept migrants from India, Afghanistan and Pakistan in a house in the village of Vaksince, close to the border with Serbia. The majority ethnic Albanian...
Macedonia 01.02.20 | 13:23

Fourteen migrants from Afghanistan and Syria stopped north of Gevgelija

Macedonian police found 14 illegal migrants in a vehicle that was moving north from Gevgelija toward Demir Kapija, which is part of the main Balkan migrant route. Twelve of the migrants are Afgans and two are from Syria. The driver was a 25 year old man from Studenicani near Skopje and he was using the...
Balkans 31.01.20 | 14:57

Orban blames Soros for the attempt to push migrants through the Hungarian border

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban accused the left wing US billionaire George Soros of funding the movement of migrants through the Balkans, after the Hungarian border was stormed on Tuesday. About 60 illegals tried to enter Hungary near the Roszke border crossing, but were quickly apprehended. This...
Balkans 21.01.20 | 22:16

V4: Record numbers of migrants arrive from Turkey

Frontex has revealed that the number of migrants arriving to the EU from Turkey in 2019 increased by 46 percent compared with the previous year , the V4 news agency reported. According to a report published by Frontex, the EU’s Coast and Border Agency, 2019 saw a drastic increase in the number...
Macedonia 17.01.20 | 16:37

Two Afghan migrants caught in a cargo train bound for Hungary

Two illegal migrants from Afghanistan were detained while crossing the Macedonian – Serbian border. The two were hiding in a cargo train bound from Greece for Hugary. A Serbian border guard noticed that seals on the train cars were broken and found the two Afghan men, aged 18 and 20, hiding among...
Macedonia 16.01.20 | 21:02

Corrupt police commander involved in migrant trafficking was given a high level position in the Interior Ministry

A former top police commander in Stip, who was charged with organized migrant trafficking, was named an adviser in the Interior Ministry. Ljupco Trajkovski was appointed to this position during the flurry of reassignments in the Interior Minister done by Oliver Spasovski in the last days of his term...
World 14.01.20 | 11:19

V4: High migration pressure at Hungary’s borders

The first two weeks of the year has given a lot of work to police officers and soldiers protecting the borders, and the migration pressure is high, the Hungarian Interior Ministry’s state secretary said at a press conference in Budapest on Monday, the V4 news agency reported. Karoly Kontrat added...
Balkans 12.01.20 | 11:49

8 Children among 11 migrants killed after boat sinks in the Aegean Sea

Eleven migrants died on Saturday, including eight children, when their vessel sank in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey, state news agency Anadolu reported. The boat sank off Cesme, a popular tourist resort in western Turkey opposite the Greek island of Chios, Anadolu said, adding that eight others...
Balkans 02.01.20 | 13:31

V4: Migrant flow through the Balkans doubled in 2019

Hungarian authorities are warning that the number of illegal crossings along the Balkan migrant route have doubled in 2019 compared to 2018. Gyorgy Bakondi, security adviser at the Hungarian Government, said that the increased pressure against Hungary was seen mainly on the Serbian border, but also noticeable...
Balkans 27.12.19 | 12:11

V4: Hungarian police intercept 139 illegal migrants on the Serbian border on Boxing Day

Hungarian police officers apprehended 101 foreign nationals along the Bacs-Kiskun county section of the Serbia-Hungary border on 26 December. The migrants, who claimed to be Palestinian, Syrian, Iraqi and Algerian citizens, entered Hungary illegally. Two migrants were prevented from crossing the Hungarian...
Balkans 24.12.19 | 16:06

V4: Hungary apprehends 1.000 illegal migrants as Greece struggles with the migrant crisis

Last week more than a thousand people attempted to illegally enter Hungary, and thus the territory of the EU, according to a statement issued by the Hungarian Police Headquarters. It is a record-high number, five times of last year’s figure. The pressure of migration has steadily increased in...
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