Video: Fourty one illegal migrants apprehended at the Romanian border

Fourty one illegal migrants apprehended at the Romanian border

Last night, during a complex action in the field of countering illegal migration, Border Police officers within Timis Border Police County Inspectorate detected several groups of illegal migrants, consisting of 41 people trying to illegally enter Romania. This week, Border Police officers detected 113 African migrants whom illegally crossed the Serbian border.

Last night, at about 20.00 hours, Border Police officers within Timis Border Police County Inspectorate, Jimbolia and Lunga Border Police Sectors detected with the help of night vision equipment several groups of migrants walking from Serbia towards Romania, over the filed. A specific action in order to apprehend and lead the aforementioned people on the premises of the Border Police Sectors was initiated immediately.

In this specific action were involved Border Police officers within Timis Border Police County Inspectorate, Jimbolia and Lunga, Border Police Sectors. Also, in order to apprehend one of the migrants’ groups, Border Police officers had to use the weapons and ammunition, warning them by shooting vertically, in accordance with law provisions.

Out of the preliminary investigations the fact that the 41 migrants were from Algeria, Morocco and Pakistan resulted.

Serbian Border Police authorities were contacted and the aforementioned people were handed over to Serbian Border Police authorities, in order to take the imposed legal measures, based on Romanian-Serbian Agreement.

This week, Border Police officers within Timis Border Police County Inspectorate detected 113 migrants from Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, etc. whom illegally crossed the Serbian border in order to enter illegally Romania.

Romanian Border Police, active participant of the fight against illegal migration

A Romanian Border Police delegation, leaded by the General Inspector, Mr. IOAN BUDA, participated in Spain, in the sixth Euro-African Police Conference regarding the illegal migration.

From 18th to 20th of October 2011 took place the sixth Euro-African Police Conference regarding the illegal migration.

Within this reunion, Romania was represented by a Romanian Border Police delegation, leaded by the General Inspector, Mr. IOAN BUDA and consisting of officers specialized in preventing and countering the illegal migration.

The conference addressed to representatives of the highest level within Gendarmerie and Police of each state with responsibilities in the field of countering illegal migration, within Europe and Africa, and to representatives of European and international organizations.

The main objective of the conference was to improve the cooperation and dialog between law enforcement structures with responsibilities in the field of countering illegal migration.

During the conference, topics as current situation, tendencies and perspectives of illegal migration within the Eastern and Western Mediterranean area, Atlantic area and Sub-Saharan African area were approached.

Based on African instability, the impact of the migration on Europe was analyzed and projects and proposals in the field of E.U. cooperation with this state regarding the illegal migration were launched.

Also, the Spanish support towards Africa was analyzed from the global point of view, and under the coordination of EUROPOL, information exchange in regards to illegal migration and the fight against organized crime networks were approached.

Operational cooperation of FRONTEX Agency, European agency for the operational cooperation management at the E.U. external borders in the field of illegal migration was introduced.

Participating in this activity, was a real opportunity for strengthening the relations with the authorities of the states involved in the fight against illegal migration, in order to exchange information and data in a effective way.

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.

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:

• 70 illegal deeds (21 crimes and 49 penalties) committed by Romanian and foreign citizens;
• the amount of penalties reaches approximately 16,600 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 99,000 lei, were detected;
• the flow of passengers and means of transportation at the border crossing points was about 94,000 people, both at the entry and at the exit and over 28,600 means of transportation.
  7 foreign citizens were refused entry due to the fact that they did not meet the entry requirements and also 3 foreign 20 Romanian citizens were not allowed to exit Romania out of various legal grounds.