Thirty two illegal migrants stopped at the Romanian border

In the last 48 hours, Border Police officers detected and apprehended 32 people of various nationalities, trying to illegally cross the state border for entering Romania.
In all the cases, prior acts of criminal investigation in terms of the offense of state border illegal crossing were drawn by Border Police officers.

• In the last 24 hours, Border Police officers within Timis Border Police County Inspectorate, Lunga, Jimbolia and Moravita Border Police Sectors apprehended in the responsibility area seven groups of migrants consisting of 28 men, citizens of Alger, Tunisia, Morocco and Libya.
  The detected people spoke no Romanian and had no identity documents. Border Police officers led the aforementioned people on the premises of Border Police Sectors in order to sort out the situation. On this occasion was established the fact that 20 of them are citizens of Algeria, 4 from Morocco, 2 from Tunisia and 2 from Libya with ages from 20 to 36 years old, which illegally crossed the Serbian- Romanian border by walking in order to enter Romania.
  During the investigation, the aforementioned people stated that they had acted this way due to the fact that they wanted to reach Schengen area and had no visas for that.
• On 18.10.2011, at about 21.20 hours, Border Police officers within Raducaneni Border Police Sector, Iasi County, while carrying out a specific mission using the optical recognition system, detected two people walking on the left side of the Jijia River.
  A Border Police patrol within Raducaneni Border Police Sector went there shortly in order to identify, apprehend and lead the people on the premises of Border Police Sector in order to sort out the situation.
  Out of the investigations and the migrants’ statements resulted that they are citizens of Republic of Moldova: B. Victor and C. Adrian,, with ages of 23 and 24 years old and that they have crossed the Prut River with the help of floatable boats, intending to reach Italy, for getting a job there. Inside their luggage two flashlights, two maps (Romania-Italy route) and several personal objects were found.
  The Border event was investigated in cooperation with Border authorities within Republic of Moldova.
• Also Border Police officers within Husi Border Police Sector, Vaslui County, detected on 19.10.2011, around 21.30 hours, with the help of optical recognition system, two men who reached Romanian territory after swimming in Prut River from Republic of Moldova towards Romania. The intervention Border Police team within Husi Border Police Sector apprehended and led the people on the premises of Border Police Sector in order to sort out the situation.
  Out of the investigations and the migrants’ statements resulted that they are citizens of Russian Federation and intended to reach Romania in order to get a job.
  Also this Border event was investigated in cooperation with Border authorities within Republic of Moldova.

In all the cases, prior acts of criminal investigation in terms of the offense of state border illegal crossing were drawn by Border Police officers, at the end of the investigation being taken the imposed legal measures.