Video: Dozens of migrants apprehended at the border

Dozens of migrants apprehended at the border

At the end of the week, Border Police officers within Timis Border Police County Inspectorate detected twenty people who had crossed or intended to cross the Romanian "green border". In all the cases prior acts of criminal investigation of the offense of illegal border crossing or attempt of illegal border crossing were drawn by Border Police officers.

Border Police officers within Lunga, Jimbolia, Sannicolau Mare and Beba Veche Border Police Sectors detected, in the competency area, six groups of illegal migrants, coming from Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Turkey, Libya and Iraq.

The detected people had no identity documents and spoke no Romanian language. Border Police officers led them on the premises of Border Police Sectors in order to sort out the situation. On this occasion was established the fact seven of them are citizens of Morocco, five of Algeria, five of Tunisia, one Libyan and one Iraqi with ages from 21 to 39 years old, whom illegally crossed the Serbian-Romanian border or who tried to illegally reach Hungary.

During the investigation, the aforementioned illegal migrants stated that they have acted this way due to the fact that they wanted to reach Schengen area and did not have the necessary visas.

In all the cases prior acts of criminal investigation of the offense of illegal border crossing or attempt of illegal border crossing were drawn by Border Police officers, following at the end of the investigations to be taken the imposed legal measures.

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:

• 49 illegal deeds (14 crimes and 35 penalties) committed by Romanian and foreign citizens;
• the amount of penalties reaches approximately 5,650 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 72,000 lei, were detected;
• the flow of passengers and means of transportation at the border crossing points was about 142,300 people, both at the entry and at the exit and over 34,300 means of transportation.
  16 foreign citizens were refused entry due to the fact that they did not meet the entry requirements and 102 Romanian citizens were not allowed to exit Romania out of various legal grounds.