EUROPE-MIGRANTS/FENCE ESCAPE Migrant family breaks through newly-built border fence into Hungary

Record ID: 141170

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/FENCE ESCAPE Migrant family breaks through newly-built border fence into Hungary
  • Date: 12th September 2015
  • Summary: SERBIA-HUNGARY BORDER, HUNGARY (SEPTEMBER 12, 2015) (REUTERS) BORDER PATROL VEHICLE DRIVING ALONG BORDER FENCE AS MIGRANT WOMAN HELPS CHILD GET THROUGH HOLE IN FENCE BORDER GUARD LOOKING THROUGH BINOCULARS MORE MIGRANTS BREAKING THROUGH FENCE, GUARDS STANDING AROUND WOMEN HOLDING CHILDREN IN THEIR ARMS, ARGUING WITH BORDER GUARDS MAN WITH UNHCR LOGO ON VEST TALKING TO MIGRANTS THROUGH FENCE MIGRANT LEFT BEHIND FENCE URGING BORDER POLICE TO LET HIM THROUGH TO BE UNITED WITH FAMILY LITTLE GIRL CRYING BORDER POLICE LETTING MAN THROUGH MORE MIGRANTS ON SERBIAN SIDE WAITING IN DISTANCE MIGRANT FAMILY BEING LED AWAY BY BORDER GUARDS VARIOUS OF FENCE BEING INSTALLED MIGRANTS WALKING THROUGH BORDER WHERE FENCE IS BEING BUILT
  • Embargoed: 27th September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Hungary
  • Country: Hungary
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVAC8E6JIQ240IXHKUJ0COGVTB41
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: As Hungary was pressing on with building a fence along its border with Serbia, a migrant family broke through a newly-elected section of the wire barrier on Saturday (September 12).
    Border police spotted a group of migrants, including women and small children, crawling through a hole that had been cut into the wire, and tried to stop them.
    After a heated argument with the police, the whole family managed to scramble through and were later taken away by the border guards.
    The fence, in part being built by prisoners along the 175-km (109-mile) border, is expected to be completed sooner than planned, by the beginning rather than the end of October, according to Hungarian authorities.
    Authorities said on Thursday Hungary would call a "state of crisis" next week as the right-wing government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban readies a clampdown on migrants and refugees streaming through the Balkans.
    Hungary is planning to introduce "different rules of the game" from next week, with penalties for illegal entry, accelerated asylum procedures and possible expulsion back over the border, authorities said on Thursday.
    Hungary has declared Serbia, an impoverished former Yugoslav republic still years away from joining the European Union, to be a safe country for refugees to seek asylum.
    That gives Budapest the right to turn down any and all asylum requests from people entering across that border.
    Over 176,000 migrants and refugees, many of them fleeing the Syrian war, have been recorded entering Hungary over the European Union's external border this year en route to the richer and more generous countries of western and northern Europe.
    Many more may have entered undetected, slipping through the hands of over-stretched border police.
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