Last weekend 61 people were apprehended after illegally crossing the border, mostly from Serbia.
“The police apprehended sixty-one illegal border crossers within the territory of Hungary between Friday and Sunday”, the National Police Headquarters informed MTI on Monday. Seven migrants were apprehended along the Hungary’s border with Romania and Ukraine.
According to the new legislation that came into effect on 28 March this year, foreign nationals who are in Hungary illegally may be apprehended by police and escorted back to the border barrier providing they are not suspected of having committed a crime.
166 migrants were apprehended within the territory of Hungary during the past week and accompanied back to the border by police. During the previous week from 19-25 June, this number was 202.
