Minor Incidents with Refugees in Croatia as Influx of Migrants Continues

The latest from the migrant crisis in Croatia.

On Monday morning, around twenty refugees jumped from the train transporting them to the temporary reception centre in Slavonski Brod in Croatia. They were soon located by police and escorted to the transit centre. According to police, during their flight, there was no incident recorded in Slavonski Brod, reports Tportal and Index.hr on January 12, 2016.

This was the second attempt of refugees to leave the official route while passing through Croatia. The first incident occurred when, just after the opening of the transit centre in Slavonski Brod, one group of refuges jumped over the fence, but police immediately caught them and returned them to the centre.

Since the beginning of the migration crisis, 583,092 migrants and refugees have passed through Croatia. It is expected that the influx of refugees from Serbia will continue.

The migrant crisis and the measures taken by individual states in response to the migrant wave will be the focus of talks between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar who will meet on Thursday in Berlin.

Slovenian migrant centres are almost empty and Austria is still continuing to accept migrants from Slovenia, but the media are citing diplomatic sources which claim that the situation could change in the light of the changed conditions in Germany after the attack of migrants on women during the New Year’s Eve in Cologne.

Slovenian news agency STA reported on Monday that Austria is preparing a plan to refuse to admit at its borders those foreigners who are suspected of being pure economic migrants, and not refugees from affected areas of conflict in the Middle East.

Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann, who has so far managed to resist pressure from his coalition partners from the Austrian People’s Party, said that Austria must have an alternative solution while waiting for the European plan to deal with the migrant crisis to be finished and that it has to enhance its cooperation with Germany on a joint rejection of economic migrants, so that the number of people who enter these two countries via the Balkan route could be reduced.

Slovenia has repeatedly warned that the measures implemented by Austria and Germany to limit the number of migrants will be accompanied by its own similar measures and that it would introduce restrictions on admission of migrants who enter Slovenia from Croatia. Two months ago, Slovenia began building a razor-wire fence on the Slovenian-Croatian border.

 

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