The Hungarian Police will respond adequately to all challenges and will protect the Hungarian state border, György Bakondi, the Prime Minister’s Chief Advisor on Homeland Security said on Tuesday on the programme Aktuális on Channel M1 in relation to an attempted breakthrough en masse at dawn on Tuesday at Röszke.

Groups of illegal migrants violently attempted to get into Hungary in two waves, at 5:20 a.m. and then at 5:30 a.m., through the Röszke 2 border crossing point. Police officers prevented them from doing so; the armed security guard on duty fired several warning shots.

On the programme, György Bakondi recalled that the incident took place at the same place, “an emblematic place” where a multitude of migrants, even larger than that on Tuesday, violently attempted to break through to Hungary in autumn 2015.

In summing up the Tuesday incident, he said: we have seen an attempted entry by an organised, properly lead violent mass of young men who are well informed of the border protection system.

Nevertheless, the multi-line, multi-step Hungarian border protection system functioned well; Hungarian police officers, soldiers and armed security guards successfully prevented a larger group of migrants from illegally entering into Hungary, the Chief Advisor on Homeland Security said.

(MTI)