Coronavirus – number of migrants trying to cross the Hungarian border record low

“only” 33 migrants tried to cross the border illegally. 

The statistics of previous weeks showed more than 1,000 migrants each week, so it seems that Serbian authorities can stop people trying to get to Western Europe illegally. Meanwhile, the situation got better on the Turkish-Greek border as well because Turkish authorities removed the crowds from there.

Interestingly, pro-government media outlets like Magyar Nemzet did not notice the change because they wrote on March 26 that migrants do not give up on getting into Hungary even though the borders of the country are closed because of the virus. They wrote in the article that migrants think Hungarian police are concentrating on the epidemic, so the borders are not as well-protected, which, of course, is not true. 

Atlatszo asked the police why migrants have “disappeared”. They did not want to comment on the decreasing numbers of migrants, but they added that the police force on the border is

always enough to baulk any attempts to get into Hungary illegally.

Source: atlatszo.hu, police.hu