“Hungary has seen a radical reduction in people smuggling this year and some eighty people smugglers have been apprehended so far”, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said on Hungarian M1 television’s Thursday evening current affairs program.

György Bakondi said people smugglers had been most active in 2015, but the number of crimes fell last year. Hungarians are sometimes involved in people smuggling, but this is not the norm, he added.

The Chief Security Advisor said it was not currently necessary to construct a security fence along the Hungarian-Romanian border.

According to Mr. Bakondi, migration from Libya to Italy, and from Morocco to Spain, is also being monitored.

The Chief Security Advisor also spoke about the fact that in cooperation with the National Directorate General for Disaster Management, the Hungarian Firefighter Association has donated a refurbished fire engine to the town of Homoródalmás in Hargita County, Romania, which has a large Hungarian population.

(MTI)