Standoff between police, migrants continues at Bicske – VIDEO – UPDATE
Budapest, September 4 (MTI) – Protests by migrants stranded at the train station in the town of Bicske, northwest of Budapest, continued on Friday, an MTI correspondent said.
The migrants are still refusing to leave the train stranded at the station or to cooperate with police and often shout “Freedom! freedom!” About 20-30 police officers are at the scene, but they have so far not had to intervene, the correspondent said.
The migrants are also refusing water and food from Red Cross activists at the station and are holding up banners that read “We want go Germany!” The correspondent said the standoff has not affected rail traffic, with trains arriving with only minor delays.
Migrants had held a noisy demonstration amid a heavy police presence at Bicske railway station on Friday morning, where their train bound for western Hungary was stopped the previous day.
Migrants break out of reception centre
Budapest, September 4 (MTI) – The deputy head of Hungary’s immigration office said on Friday that 64 migrants jumped over the fence of the Bicske reception centre and ran off.
Attila Kiss said the migrants were registered in Budapest and were taken to the Bicske camp by bus. He said the migrants “seemed cooperative” at first, but scattered once they got off the bus.
Protests by migrants stranded at the train station in the town of Bicske, northwest of Budapest, continued on Friday, an MTI correspondent said.
The migrants are still refusing to leave the train stranded at the station or to cooperate with police and often shout “Freedom! freedom!” About 20-30 police officers are at the scene, but they have so far not had to intervene, the correspondent said.
The migrants are also refusing water and food from Red Cross activists at the station and are holding up banners that read “We want go Germany!” The correspondent said the standoff has not affected rail traffic, with trains arriving with only minor delays.
Migrants had held a noisy demonstration amid heavy police presence at Bicske railway station on Friday morning, where their train bound for western Hungary was stopped the previous day.
Kiss said the migrants on the train at the Bicske station, who he said were still refusing to cooperate with police, were offered to select a spokesperson from among themselves who would be shown the Bicske reception centre by authorities, but they refused. Kiss said this is a sign that the migrants do not really seek refugee status from Hungary.
On the topic of the deaths of 71 migrants found in the back of a truck on an Austrian motorway last week, Kiss denied press reports saying that one of the suspects applied for Hungarian citizenship.
Photo: MTI
Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters
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