Citing information from the secret services, the Prime Minister’s Chief Security Advisor said: “in certain zones anarchist groups” appear among the migrants and assist them, including by providing tools with which to cut through border security fences.
Speaking on M1 Hungarian Television’s Saturday evening current affairs programme, György Bakondi also said that when fences are breached, for instance along the Greek-Macedonian border, there is always a large crowd of people at the location, but only a smaller proportion, usually some 200-300 people, are actually involved in breaking through the fence. The rest view the events from afar in the hope that if the rest succeed in breaching the fence, they will also have a chance to get through, he added.
The Chief Advisor stressed that the Hungarian Government would not be coming to a decision on building a fence along the Hungarian-Romanian border at Wednesdays’ cabinet meeting, only on reinforcing existing border security measures, primarily along the Hungarian-Serbian stretch of the border. The border with Romania will only be close if deemed necessary according to intelligence information, he said, adding that preparations for beginning construction of a new fence if so required had nevertheless been completed.
Mr. Bakondi also said there is nothing preventing the deployment of further soldiers and police at Hungary’s borders.