“Public safety in Europe has decreased significantly”, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said on M1 Hungarian television’s Friday evening current affairs program with relation to the terrorist attack in Stockholm.

According to György Bakondi, Hungary has stated from the very beginning that uncontrolled mass illegal immigration is in itself a danger to the continent.

On the subject of Hungarian migration measures, the Chief Security Advisor highlighted the fact that the number of attempts to illegally cross the border have decreased significantly since the new regulations were introduced: there are now only a few such attempts every day, while previously one to two hundred people-a-day often tried to enter the country illegally.

There are ninety people waiting in the transit zones, more than previously, he said, adding that one thousand seven hundred people had submitted requests for asylum so far this year, of whom sixty had been afforded some form of protection. Final decisions of asylum requests are usually brought within thirty days.

There is room to accommodate four to five hundreds migrants in the transit zones, who are provided with food, healthcare, washing facilities and rooms designed to provide for cultural and social life, Mr. Bakondi said.

(Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister)