The brand new Slovak authorities has introduced a “large” deployment of police and armed forces alongside the border with Hungary to forestall rising numbers of migrants coming into the nation
ByThe Related Press
October 30, 2023, 12:32 PM
FILE – Czech policemen stroll on patrol on the border with Slovakia close to Stary Hrozenkov, Czech Republic, on Sept. 29, 2022. Slovakia will resume the checks on the border with Hungary to scale back the rising numbers of unlawful migrants coming into the nation, the federal government selected Wednesday Oct. 4, 2023. On Monday Oct. 30, 2023, the brand new Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico introduced a “large” deployment of police and armed forces alongside the border with Hungary to forestall rising numbers of migrants coming into the nation. (AP Photograph/Petr David Josek, File)
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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — The brand new Slovak authorities introduced an enormous deployment of police and armed forces Monday alongside the border with Hungary to forestall rising numbers of migrants coming into the nation.
Prime Minister Robert Fico didn’t instantly give particulars of the deployment however mentioned that unlawful migration have to be controled or else folks linked to “terrorist” teams might enter the nation.
Fico, who spoke after assembly Inside Minister Matus Sutaj Esto, mentioned the deployment would begin later Monday and that he would personally examine the scenario on the border.
His new authorities was sworn in final Wednesday after his leftist Smer, or Route, get together gained the Sept. 30 parliamentary election, opening the best way for the populist chief to grow to be prime minister for the fourth time.
The brand new authorities has not but launched its coverage program, however Fico has prompt it can embrace a tricky stance towards migration.
Esto mentioned that the scenario on the earth has been critical lately as a result of warfare between Israel and the militant group Hamas, which attacked the nation on Oct 7, and that he anticipated a brand new wave of migration.
The minister mentioned the federal government hoped to regulate your complete 655-kilometer (407-mile) frontier with Hungary.
The earlier Slovak authorities resumed random checks on the border with Hungary on Oct. 5, a day after the nation’s neighbors, together with Austria, the Czech Republic and Poland, reintroduced controls at their borders with Slovakia to curb migration. Then-Slovak Prime Minister Ludovit Odor criticized the neighbors’ border controls on the time, saying it could be preferrable to discover a Europe-wide resolution to the issue of migrants.
All 4 international locations belong to the European Union’s visa-fee Schengen zone.
The migrants largely use Slovakia as a transit nation on the best way to western Europe.
In accordance with the Inside Ministry, Slovakia registered nearly 40,000 migrants from the start of the 12 months till Oct. 1 — 11 occasions greater than a 12 months in the past.
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