Some 100,000 to 120,000 migrants are seeking ways to enter Europe in the simplest possible manner, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister György Bakondi said on the public service television news channel on Friday.
M1 reported that on Saturday another migrant convoy could set out from Bosnia and Herzegovina; migrants are planning to protest at the Croatian border.
Mr Bakondi added that migrants are preparing to exert political pressure in a highly organised manner once again. He observed that the idea could not be their own; demonstrations are “typical of Western European culture and civilisation”.
“We can observe the coordination of organisations calling themselves NGOs which in actual fact operate more or less as people smuggling gangs,” he said.
The chief advisor said he had recently observed in the region of the Bosnian and Croatian border that there were a great many desperate people there. On the Croatian border there is no fence, but there is a stringent border control system, he added.
He also highlighted that the UN estimates the number of those currently on the Balkans route to be somewhere around 100,000 to 120,000.
This is, however, typically the number of registered migrants. Those who avoided registration could number as many as a further 10,000 to 20,000, he added.
Mr Bakondi stressed that the Hungarian government and authorities are making every effort to identify the main movements and threats, and to respond to them in a way which guarantees the Hungarian people’s security.