At the end of the last week, Romanian Border
Police Officers detected and apprehended 39 people, citizens of
India, Alger, Morocco etc. trying to illegally cross the "green
border".
37 illegal migrants were apprehended by border police officers
within Timis Border Police County Inspectorate and 2 by those
within Arad Border Police County Inspectorate.
In all the cases prior acts of criminal investigation in terms of
the offense of state border illegal crossing or attempt of state
border illegal crossing were drawn by border police officers.
Between 01 - 04.07.2011, border police officers
within Timis Border Police County Inspectorate apprehended several
groups of migrants trying to illegally reach Schengen area.
The 37 migrants, citizens of India, Alger, Morocco, Tunisia,
Afghanistan and Lebanon were detected by border police officers
within Jimbolia, Sannicolau Mare, Moravita and Lunga Border Police
Sectors. As technical support, in some cases, border police
officers used thermo vision technique for detecting the
migrants.
The biggest group, consisting of seven migrants, was detected in
the competency area of Jimbolia Border Police Sector, on
01.07.2011. The aforementioned migrants spoke no Romanian and had
no identity documents which entitled the border police officers to
lead them on the premises of Jimbolia Border Police Sector, in
order to sort out the situation. On this occasion was established
the fact that the seven people, with ages between 20 and 54 are:
three of them Algerians, one Tunisian, one citizen of Lebanon and
two citizens of Morocco. All of them had illegally crossed the
Serbian-Romanian border.
In all the cases prior acts of criminal investigation in terms of
the offense of state border illegal crossing were drawn by border
police officers.
At the end of the investigations some of the migrants asked for
refugee status, Romanian Immigration Office taking over the
cases.
On 03.07.201, at about 02.30, a border police
patrol within Nadlac Border Police Sector, Arad County, detected at
about 100 meters away from the Romanian-Hungarian border, two
people walking towards Hungary. Their presence in the area not
being justified, they were leaded to the Nadlac Border Police
Sector for further investigations.
As a result of the investigations the fact that the aforementioned
people are Algerians, with ages between 22 and 25 years old was
established.
On the name of these people prior acts of criminal investigation in
terms of the offense of state border illegal crossing were drawn by
border police officers.