Tuesday, 25 October 2011

Seven illegal migrants apprehended at the border


In the last 24 hours, seven people trying to illegally enter our country were apprehended by Romanian Border Police within responsibility area of Lunga Border Police Sector. In all the cases prior acts of criminal investigation in terms of the offense of state border illegal crossing of state border illegal crossing were drawn by Border Police officers.
Border Police patrol within Lunga Border Police Sector detected in the responsibility area two groups of illegal migrants consisting of seven people, originally from Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco.
Due to the fact that they spoke no Romanian and had no identity documents, were led on the premises of Border Police Sector, in order to sort out the situation.
On this occasion was established the fact that five of them are Algerians, one from Morocco and one Tunisian with ages from 18 to 34 years old, who illegally crossed the Serbian Romanian border.
Prior acts of criminal investigation in terms of the offense of state border illegal crossing were drawn by Border Police officers, following to be taken the legal imposed 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:
  • 39 illegal deeds (16 crimes and 23 penalties) committed by Romanian and foreign citizens;
  • the amount of penalties reaches approximately 2,090 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 230,000 lei, were detected;
  • the flow of passengers and means of transportation at the border crossing points was about 88,270 people, both at the entry and at the exit and over 27,400 means of transportation.
    11 foreign citizens were refused entry due to the fact that they did not meet the entry requirements and also 13 Romanian citizens were not allowed to exit Romania out of various legal grounds.