According to Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács, if it weren’t for the fence, Hungary would be experiencing the same as it did in 2015: illegal migrants would be arriving in their thousands.

On Hungarian M1 television’s Thursday evening current affairs programme, the Government Spokesperson was asked with relation to the fact that during their joint press conference Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office János Lázár told reporters that he has asked the Minister of Interior to make the recordings registered by thermal cameras along the border barrier public. Reporting on his on-site experiences, the Minister said: Illegal immigrants are attempting to cut through the border security fence using cold chisels every 2-3 hours on a daily basis.

“The police must examine whether it would contravene any principles of data protection or the right to privacy if the Government were to occasionally show people what is happening on the Hungarian-Serbian border, which is one of the external borders of the European Union”, Mr. Kovács said.

“The challenge that border guards and police patrolling the border are facing has become more distant compared to 2015, so ‘let all the world see’ what is happening there overnight”, he said.

“Migration pressure and the number of attempts to illegally cross the border is not decreasing; if it weren’t for the fence, Hungary would be experiencing the same as it did in 2015, meaning not just ‘a dozen or perhaps a hundred’ people-a-day would be attempting to cross the border, but they would be trying continuously, illegal migrants would be arriving in their thousands”, he added.

(Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister/MTI)