Breaking – human smuggler fired on police at the Hungarian-Austrian border!
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Agents of the Counter-Terrorism Centre are already in Szentpéterfa, where the shooting happened earlier today.
According to vaol.hu, the news portal of Vas county, there are a lot of police units in Szentpéterfa, a small Hungarian village just metres away from the Hungarian-Austrian border. They wrote that a human smuggler opened fire on Austrian border guards from the Hungarian side. Then he escaped and tried to hide in a former border guard barrack nearby. The officers of the Counter-Terrorism Centre surrounded the building. A couple of minutes later, their Austrian colleagues sent a drone to help. Based on unconfirmed information, the smuggler is not alone.
Afterwards, police caught a Moldavian human smuggler in the village. Officers found 14 people in his van, who claimed to be Syrian refugees. To sum up, there are two cases. One of them is already solved, while the other is still going on.
Regarding the latter issue, local police issued a statement a couple of hours ago. They said that the Syrians could not provide any documents proving their national identity or citizenship. However, they could not demonstrate the legality of their stay in Hungary. As a result,