Refugee Crisis: Hungary declares emergency at Serbia border

• 09.18.2015, 14:03
•  Europe,  World

Refugees gathered on the Serbian-Hungarian border continue to shower the police with stones and sticks, in response to which the Hungarian policemen use their water cannons and tear gas.

As Euronews reports, the situation here is so tense that Hungarian police had to send for reinforcements, including special forces from the national Anti-Terrorist Center.

Hundreds of migrants were involved in the clashes at the border between Hungary and Serbia, after Hungary closed its entire border with Serbia preventing migrants from entering the country or damaging the border fence.

In their defense officials of Hungary noted that 20 police officers were injured as migrants tried to break through a gate, and a spokesman accused migrants of using children as "human shields."

The migrant crisis has obviously reached to its peak with the whole international society and the world leaders being focused on it and commenting on the situation.

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, for instance, declared that he was shocked after Hungarian police fired tear gas and water cannon to force migrants back from its border, BBC reports. According to him, such treatment of asylum seekers was unacceptable. 

In her turn, Germany's Defense Minister, Von der Leye noted that Hungary's treatment of refugees was against the European rules. 

"Not everybody is welcome. But those who are war refugees and fleeing civil war and terror, and those who need political asylum -- it is our principle that they have to get shelter, and ... to get asylum here in Germany,'' Von der Leye said, CNN reports.

Asked why in that case Germany decided to temporarily close its borders with Austria, German official noted: 

"We have to get back into an order so that we can manage the task really to distribute them to the different federal states and to really put them in the place where they need to be."

It is noteworthy that just a couple of hours after this interview, Germany introduced a partial control on the border with the Czech Republic as well.

German police launched a partial control on the border with the Czech Republic in order to prevent attempts of smugglers and illegal migrants to enter the territory of Germany,  particularly to Prague, Dresden and Berlin.

So, what’s thenext?! The question rises as it becomes more obvious that the Schengen Zone is really under a huge threat in such circumstances…