Video: Tens of migrants apprehended at the Romanian border

Tens of migrants apprehended at the Romanian border

At the end of this week, Romanian Border Police officers within Timis Border Police County Inspectorate detected 38 people trying to illegally cross the Romanian "green border". 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.

Border Police officers within Lunga, Moravita and Jimbolia Border Police Sectors detected, in the competency area, seven groups of illegal migrants consisting of two up to nine people, of various nationalities (Algerians Morocco and Tunisians).

The detected people had no identity documents and spoke no Romanian. Border Police officers led the people on the premises of Border Police Sectors, in order to sort out the situation. On this occasion, was established the fact that 36 of theme are citizens of Alger, 1 of Tunisia and 1 of Morocco, with ages from 19 to 40 years old who illegally crossed the Serbian-Romanian border.

While being interviewed, the illegal migrants asked for asylum in Romania. The aforementioned people stated that they have used this method due to the fact that they did not have the necessary visas. Most of them stated that they took a TAXI or a car close to the Serbian-Romanian border, from where they walked over the field till they were apprehended.

Prior acts of criminal investigation in terms of the offense of state border illegal crossing were drawn by Border Police officers, following, at the end of the investigation to be taken all the imposed legal measures.

Including this week-end, the highest number of apprehended migrants was registered in Lunga Border Police Sector, meaning 26 people.

Statistics regarding Romanian Border Police activity in the last 24 hours

In the last 24 hours, in the competence areas - meaning border crossing points and "green border" - Border Police officers detected:

• 71 illegal deeds (22 crimes and 49 penalties) committed by Romanian and foreign citizens;
• the amount of penalties reaches approximately 7,045 lei;
• undeclared goods (which were to be smuggled into the country), which exceeded the customs’ legal provisions or were suspected as being counterfeit with a total value of 28,926 lei, were detected;
• the flow of passengers and means of transportation at the border crossing points was about 181,400 people, both at the entry and at the exit and over 42,500 means of transportation.
  7 foreign citizens were refused entry due to the fact that they did not meet the entry requirements, and also 1 foreign and 41 Romanian citizens were not allowed to exit Romania out of various legal grounds.