EUROPE-MIGRANTS/HUNGARY-SERBIA BORDER HIGHWAY Migrants clamour to enter Hungary at barrier across north-south highway

Record ID: 141044

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/HUNGARY-SERBIA BORDER HIGHWAY Migrants clamour to enter Hungary at barrier across north-south highway
  • Date: 15th September 2015
  • Summary: HORGOS, ROSZKE/SERBIA-HUNGARY BORDER (SEPTEMBER 15, 2015) (REUTERS) MIGRANTS BETWEEN SERBIAN AND HUNGARIAN BORDERS PEOPLE LOOKING OVER BARRIER INTO HUNGARY PEOPLE BETWEEN SERBIAN AND HUNGARIAN BORDERS/HIGHWAY RUNNING THROUGH AREA BETWEEN BORDERS/MIGRANTS WALKING ALONG HUNGARIAN FENCE VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES WALKING ALONGSIDE HUNGARIAN BORDER FENCE HUNGARIAN POLICE BEHIND BARBED-WIRE BORDER FENCE SIGN READING: "BORDER CROSSING HORGOS"/PEOPLE ON HIGHWAY THROUGH AREA BETWEEN BORDERS MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES HOLDING SIGNS READING: "NO WATER", "NO FOOD" AND "UNTIL OPEN BORDER" PEOPLE IN AREA BETWEEN HUNGARIAN AND SERBIAN BORDERS
  • Embargoed: 30th September 2015 13:00
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  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVAC3QKXJ1E5RWJRKMVS5WZTJVVH
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Hundreds of migrants pressed against a barrier erected by Hungarian police across the main highway linking Serbia and Hungary on Tuesday (September 15), demanding they be allowed to cross the border.
    Banging on the metal barrier, they shouted "open border, open border!" a Reuters reporter said. Police stood on the other side.
    A day after the pressure of people seeking refuge from war and poverty tore up two decades of frontier-free travel within Europe, Hungary effectively shut this entrance to the EU in scenes carrying echoes of the Cold War.
    Rules which came into force at midnight will send migrants back if they seek asylum and mean arrest if they breach the fence, which thousands did while it was being built.
    Hungary says it will let refugees request asylum. But under the new regime, they risk expulsion within eight days to Serbia, which Budapest has declared 'safe' for refugees.
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