Thirty one migrants apprehended at the Romanian-Serbian border

At the end of this week, Romanian Border Police officers within Timis Border Police County Inspectorate detected several groups of migrants trying to illegally enter Romanian.

From 22 to 23.10.2011, Border Police officers continued carrying out the specific actions in the field of countering illegal migration within the responsibility area of Timis Border Police County Inspectorate.

Border Police officers within Lunga, Moravita and Beba Veche Border Police Sectors detected, with the help of night vision equipment several groups of illegal migrants walking over the field from Serbia towards Romania. Immediately a specific action for apprehending and leading the people on the premises of Border Police Sectors in order to sort out the situation was initiated.

Out of the preliminary investigations the fact that the 31 detected people were citizens of Pakistan, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt resulted.

As a result of the investigation, in regards to the aforementioned people were taken the legal measures. Also were informed the Serbian Border Authorities based on Serbian Romanian Agreement and the above mentioned people were handed over to the neighboring authorities for taking the 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:

• 50 illegal deeds (18 crimes and 32 penalties) committed by Romanian and foreign citizens;
• the amount of penalties reaches approximately 5,400 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 109,000 lei, were detected;
• the flow of passengers and means of transportation at the border crossing points was about 94,500 people, both at the entry and at the exit and over 25,600 means of transportation.
  10 foreign citizens were refused entry due to the fact that they did not meet the entry requirements and also 2 foreign 24 Romanian citizens were not allowed to exit Romania out of various legal grounds.