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

Record ID: 141068

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/HUNGARY-BARRIER 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 BORDER POINTS MAN ON ANOTHER MAN'S SHOULDERS IN FRONT OF BARRIER ACROSS HUNGARIAN BORDER MEN WHO HAVE CLIMBED UP TO LOOK OVER BARRIER INTO HUNGARY VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS CLAPPING AND CHANTING IN FRONT OF BARRIER SIGN FOR HUNGARY MAN WITH SMALL CHILD ON HIS SHOULDER WOMAN WITH SMALL CHILD IN SLING WOMAN ADJUSTING SCARF ON CHILD'S HEAD YOUNG MAN LOOKING OVER BARRIER INTO HUNGARY PEOPLE IN FRONT OF BARRIER PEOPLE SEATED IN FRONT OF BARRIER T-SHIRT ON BARBED WIRE OF BARRIER READING (English): "EUROPE SHAME" VARIOUS OF PEOPLE SEATED IN FRONT OF BARRIER HELICOPTER OVERHEAD/PEOPLE IN FRONT OF BARRIER TO HUNGARY
  • Embargoed: 30th September 2015 13:00
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  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA59AQSSH5AHQI38JYSVR2CLM3I
  • 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.
    Under new rules that took effect from midnight, Hungary says anyone seeking asylum at the Serbian border will automatically be turned back. Anyone trying to sneak through will face jail.
    The Schengen system eliminated border controls between 26 European countries, leaving no mechanism to enforce rules which still ban travel by undocumented migrants within the bloc. Countries are permitted to reimpose border checks in an emergency, but have never before done so on the scale unfolding this week.
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