Video: Thirteen illegal migrants detected at the Romanian border

Thirteen illegal migrants detected at the Romanian border

Yesterday, Border Police officers within Timis Border Police Territorial Inspectorate detected thirteen people intending to illegally cross the Romanian "green border".

Border Police officers within Lunga and Beba Veche Border Police Sectors, Timis County, detected within the responsibility area, three groups of illegal migrnts consisiting of thirteen men.

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 the thirteen men are citizens of Algeria, Egypt, Afghanistan and Tunisia with ages from 19 to 36 years old, which illegally crossed or intended to cross the Romanian state border.

The aforementioned people stated that they acted this way due to the fact that they wanted to reach Schengen area and had no necessary visas for that.

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

• 47 illegal deeds (22 crimes and 25 penalties) committed by Romanian and foreign citizens;
• the amount of penalties reaches approximately 5,000 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 16,000 lei, were detected;
• the flow of passengers and means of transportation at the border crossing points was about 106,700 people, both at the entry and at the exit and over 31,000 means of transportation.
  5 foreign citizens were refused entry due to the fact that they did not meet the entry requirements and also 1 foreign and 38 Romanian citizens were not allowed to exit Romania out of various legal grounds.