“Fifty-two illegal border crossers were apprehended by police on Hungarian territory between Friday and Sunday”, the national police headquarters informed Hungarian news agency MTI on Monday.

According to the statistics published on the police website, 15, 22 and 11 foreign citizens who were in Hungary illegally were apprehended on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, respectively, and accompanied back across the temporary border barrier. One individual was apprehended on the Romanian border.

Last week, a total of 88 illegal border crossers were apprehended and accompanied back to the other side of the border by Hungarian police. The week before, between 30 April and 6 May, this number was 96. A total of 15 people were apprehended on the Romanian and Ukrainian stretch of the border last week, it transpires from the plie summary.

(MTI)