Thirteen illegal migrants apprehended at the border

At the end of this week, Romanian Border Police officers within Timis Border Police County Inspectorate detected thirteen 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 or attempt of state border illegal crossing were drawn by Border Police officers.

Border Police officers within Lunga and Sannicolau Mare Border Police Sectors detected, in the area of responsibility, thirteen illegal migrants of various nationalities. The detected people had no identity documents and spoke no Romanian. This determined Border Police officers to lead the people on the premises of Border Police Sectors, in order to sort out the situation.

On this occasion, was established the fact that three of them are citizens of Lybia, three of Alger, three of Tunisia and one of Morocco, with ages from 18 to 33 years old who illegally crossed the Serbian - Romanian border trying to reach Hungary.

The aforementioned people stated that they have used this method due to the fact that they wanted to reach Schengen area but had no visas.

Prior acts of criminal investigation in terms of the offense of state border illegal crossing or attempt 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.

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:

• 48 illegal deeds (17 crimes and 31 penalties) committed by Romanian and foreign citizens;
• the amount of penalties reaches approximately 9,900 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 11,200 lei, were detected;
• the flow of passengers and means of transportation at the border crossing points was about 82,500 people, both at the entry and at the exit and over 24,300 means of transportation.
  16 foreign citizens were refused entry due to the fact that they did not meet the entry requirements and 16 Romanian citizens were not allowed to exit Romania out of various legal grounds.