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Europe

Slovenia places army on alert as hundreds of migrants reach border

2015-10-18

[Telegraph] Hundreds of migrants reach Slovenian border crossing with Croatia after Hungary shut its borders, as German politician stabbed in the neck by man "angry over country's refugee policy."

Slovenia placed its army on alert on Saturday as hundreds of migrants reached its border,

Do the migrants actually outnumber the Slovenian army?

diverted overnight by the closure of Hungary's 220-mile border with Croatia.

A fence designed to seal off Hungary's entire southern frontier is almost complete, forcing the migrants to alter their route. Instead of heading north and trying to enter the Schengen area via Hungary, tens of thousands of new arrivals in Croatia are now heading westwards.

Their plan is to enter Slovenia and then cross into Austria, before heading onwards to Germany. They have been spurred on by Angela Merkel's offer to accept as many as 800,000 people this year.

Posted by:Besoeker

#4 Slovenia is a pretty tough place. Not for the average tourist.

Posted by: Sven the pelter 2015-10-18 21:47

#3 Ay Pee reports:

Tiny Slovenia has said it will only take in 2,500 people a day, significantly stalling the movement of people as they fled their countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. On Saturday, more than 6,000 people reached Croatia, but most of them were stuck in the country as well as in neighboring Serbia on Sunday- and thousands kept on arriving.

On the Serbian-Croatian border, tensions flared and scuffles erupted as hundreds of irritated migrants faced a cordon of Croatian policemen preventing them from entry.

Slovenian officials said they can't accept 5,000 migrants per day as asked by Croatia, which is likely to cause a further backlog in the flow. Interior Ministry official Bostjan Sefic said Slovenia can't take more than neighboring Austria, which said it can accept 1,500 per day.

And the slowdown is rippling backward, with busses full of people parked at borders in the cold. The ripples from this should be revealing.

Posted by: trailing wife 2015-10-18 15:02

#2 Instead of Baltimore, send some blue hats.

Posted by: Skidmark 2015-10-18 09:44

#1 A whiff of grapeshot?

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-10-18 03:02

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